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College: biggest rip-off. Farking true! Fark college! (pg. 5)
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
so... with that said, my point is that you don't have to be college educated to be successful or taught how to think (in majority of cases). Moreover, I find that most of the managers (at least in the IT world) are willing to overlook college degree in favor of experience. I've been in the field for close to 15 years and have yet to have been turned down for a job because I don't have a college degree.
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I agree, but if you don't have any experience on paper, they aren't willing to consider you period. |
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| Trancealot |
Hope this anaolgy makes any sense :)
basically college is a tool for your job field you will go into after graduation. The tool does not do the job for you. You need to be taught how to use and perfect your skills with the tool so that you can use it in any situation correctly.
Kids who don't go to college basically have a tool but don't know how to use it.
ehhh I read it and laughed. Damn time for sleep. 12:17am time to hit the bed |
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
Kids who don't go to college basically have a tool but don't know how to use it. |
i learned how to use my tool without the help of college, despite it being the primary reason why I enrolled in college in the first place. |
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| jonSun |
| Except for a handful of fields, most of the time College teaches you how to get yourself in debt & make half ass pay. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
Except for a handful of fields, most of the time College teaches you how to get yourself in debt & make half ass pay. |
read: engineering, law, & medical students mostly. |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
read: engineering, law, & medical students mostly. |
nurses & dental too.:p |
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| Arbiter |
| People who don't know how to perform a sensible cost/benefit analysis on their investment in education deserve the heavy debt and crappy pay they will probably end up with. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
nurses & dental too.:p |
nursing = medical
but yeah dental too. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I am open to these things without the need for school. |
That's good.
I guess the advantage of school is a framework within which you talk to other people who have been there and done that intellectually (professors and perhaps older students), and also to test whether you've actually learned much. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
That's good.
I guess the advantage of school is a framework within which you talk to other people who have been there and done that intellectually (professors and perhaps older students), and also to test whether you've actually learned much. |
I'd say that is probably spot on. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
read: engineering, law, & medical students mostly. |
A lot of law schools are frankly terrible investments as well. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| frankly i find the opportunity to bludge for 4-5 years to be ing priceless. |
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