What did you learn from your degree that's actually worth it?

What did you learn from your degree that's actually worth it?

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A lot actually. People that say they didn't learn much either went to a shitty school, chose a shitty major or were shitty students.

A fucking lot. Got my Masters in Quantitative Finance though so I actually went to school to study and not get in debt so I can party.

my chemistry degree which i spent about 200k to earn is basically useless. I don't know if the experience was worthwhile, but writing my thesis and taking a bunch of hard ass classes i believe to have worth because it was a sort of intellectual bootcamp. I understand how things work, and can work through solutions in my everyday life based off of first principals which i think is the most you can ask from college. Socially i think it set me back. I was the smartest kid in my highschool, but middle of the pack in college. This forced me to learn how to study which was good, but it set me back socially which i think did lasting damage. There is such a thing as personal momentum. I would be more successful today if i was one of the smartest kids in state school than an average elite school grad. Also i had to unlearn a lot of things and behaviors i learned in school. Honestly the chans did a better job of educating me and providing syllabi to study through dialectical discourse.

>basically useless.
What are you doing with it?

Probably a lot that I use daily in terms of thought process and research skills, but I don't actively think about it. Every now and then I'll recall some random case and be like, "oh there was a case where such and such happened!" but it's more like a random trivia fact.

I paid 60k for my law degree and here's what I've made each year out of school (keep in mind, I live in flyover country and work from home)

> 48k
> 56k
> 80k
> 86k
> 98k

Pretty good return, honestly. I just try to think about it like an investment decision.

Got a mechanical engineering degree from a big 10 state school.
DESU, school is such a waste of time. I guess if you want to go to research or science it will be useful but if you just go to the corporate route, you just do bunch of bureaucratic BS that anyone can do.

After college i got a job at Genentech doing biopharmicutical manufacturing. I made $17/hour in a nightmare cleanroom doing 10 hour shifts starting at 4 am. It was demoralizing because the most it required was basic math to do reconciliation on a Lot. Did that for a few years, and the name Genentech did more than the name of my college for a career. Moved into an analytical chemistry position at a pharma corp as a temp for a few years mainly doing HPLC and other low level analyses as well as QC documentation. Made about $90k, but it was in a more expensive area so my takehome was less than my first job. During my tenure there i realized there was no future in chemistry because my boss, a 60 year old Phd holder with 30 years of relevant experience was not only making only 10k more than me but was ALSO a temp meaning he could be dropped at any time. No money, no security. All the coworkers were FOB chinks and indians who were happy to work a dead end job with dead end wages.

I moved to a chemical sales position which I currently hold. I make a lot more money and i'm very good at it because i'm actually a responsible person who does my best to keep my word. However state school retards who don't even understand what we're selling make as much as me, and have an easier time because they went to school with middle management. Its a networking issue.

>HPLC and other low level analyses as well as QC documentation
You can make bank in cannabis

what are the wages

Went to art school. All I did was party, smoke weed, and fuck. Spent over 150k on the degree. Did my thesis on blockchain, copy pasted the code. Now I got good pay, work from home about 2 hours a day for full time salary.

Art school best choice I made in my life.

ee here. most important thing i learned is time management because ee projects are such time intensives shits. just copy ee university courses as a study guide. you can learn circuits on your own and pirate simulation softwares. you can buy your own soldering kits and learn to solder circuits yourself. sure you wont have access to signal generators and oscilloscopes, but you can break into an university and pretend to be a student.

for the tranny you keep forcing on people you intolerant while demanding tolerance for your lifestyle faggot

Do you think it's worth going to school for finance like that to further your own financial goals?

Did you go to law school?

What do you do?

People that ask this usually have nonsense degrees. Good luck trying to prove out a board design and accompanying firmware without a solid understanding of the fundamentals.

t. computer engineer with silicon valley job that actually does hardware

>Studied mechanical engineering

I use skills and knowledge I learned in University every day. At work and in my daily life.

It was really going to school for programming and math. Everything I learned was how to approach financial problems from a scientists point of view. So I think that sort of degree is worth it. You want to go to school to learn very technical and rigorous stuff. I think a normal finance degree is too much fluff and isn't really worth much.

I'm already a CS student but I'm considering a double major in math as well since I like quantitative finance.

What's your take on that?

What kinda message is he sending in this picture

don't trust science. i was a complete "i fucking love science" faggot before i went to uni. while researching a paper I came across this meta analysis where some statisticians ripped the means and methods to shreds of a huge swathe of papers showing statistical significance in outcomes for a certain type of chemo therapy. I started to get pretty good at stats and suddenly realised the under lying basis of the majority of hard science findings was based on statistics but no one writing the papers were fucking statisticians and shit was all fucked up everywhere. it finally dawned on me that fucking line you read in the newspapers "study finds XXX does YYY" is just complete fucking bait bullshit and even the shit you are learning in lectures needed to be caveated to fuck and back but is presented as an absolute truth. Fuck by the time I had started Uni and finished uni i think a major theory on geological plate movement had fucking changed. LIke the same thing I had learned from grade school for 12 years suddenly got thrown out the fucking window but no one ever said we aren't dealing with absolutes in the vast vast vast majority of the basis of science. I ended up finishing my bachelors in biology but by the end of uni I had found God.

You can prove or disprove pretty much anything with (((science))). See all those sports science studies funded by Gatorade that all concluded "Water doesn't work, you need Gatorade and you need to waterboard yourself with it when you're not even thirsty or you will die from heatstroke even if it's cold." Hell, I found a Harvard paper that said riding a bike is worse for the environment than driving a car.

18 dorrar an hour temp

so fucking little. i have a bs but i fucked up not simply doing comp sci.

I'm in my last year of accounting and I can confidently say that I really have learned a shit ton about business and why they operate the way they do. Truthfully that was actually the entire reason I wanted to switch to a business degree in the first place. Was tired of the media disinformation and social fud surrounding businesses and couldn't stand to remain in the dark when people would talk about taxes and markets, throwing out this jargon and that jargon.

I really do find it fascinating and I think it is worth it. I'm going for my masters next year also to get an even deeper knowledge. In my opinion, Finance or Accounting are the only two degrees that will teach you all the practical knowledge you need to know about businesses. Everything else is limp shit.

Accounting. Went to community college for a little over 2 years then transferred to a private uni to finish. Cost 45k.

You learn a lot as you pass through the classes but a lot of that shit went in one ear out the other. A lot of stuff I don't think I'll ever use. Most entry-level accounting jobs use shit you learn in prin 1 and 2, the first two accounting classes you take.

What did I learn that's worth it? Probably just how to actually look at financials and judge whether a company is worth investing in and obviously basic accounting/tax laws etc.

How to learn and apply said knowledge

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Graduate Econ course last year... holy shit I was such a pleb before I learned about markets and human behavior... also my advice to everybody from any field of study: Learn statistics because that's the math that actually matters

anons I need help

I'm first year finance student.. what can I do to learn how to code?? possibly get a masters in mathematics? what's the best plan for me?

CFA doesn't look interesting to me anymore.. limited coding..

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Why are you just a CS major then?

INHALE THE CORONA
SUE YOUR CAMPUS

if you're looking to get into data analysis/data science I recomend datacamp. The subscription is tottaly worth it.

Don't have enough knowlegde to tell you anything about general programming though

Start a business while in college, you’ll learn more in a month than you will going for 4 years.

You might have been retarded before your degree then depending on what it is. Computer science here, knew damn near every single thing from college by watching youtube videos like an autist. Giant waste of time.

>Tfw wanted to continue going to school to get a Financial Engineering Degree.
>Tfw already landed a stable job and waiting for Chainlink singularity to happen.

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i kinda like finance and don't want to switch to CS if I can't code.. it would put me behind my peers heavily..

and for comparison.. I'm top of my class in finance..

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I appreciate it. I'm looking at data science and analysis but I'd like to learn artificial intelligence if possible for business applications..

what are your thoughts on Wharton's new artificial intelligence for business certificate? I feel like I could get my toes in the water on it

You do know that you can learn to code on the side right? There's at least a dozen coding platforms out there that can teach you Javascript, HTML, Python and a bunch of others.

Also, look up some Computing Method classes for your field of study at your Uni. There's probably a few

I came to the same realization being a med student and doing some my first papers + some teachers who explained to me how pharma cheat the fuck out of statistics. It didn't disappoint me though, I feel it now like "so that's how the real world work" and I feel slightly better under the realization than every doctor in the world will eventually believe dumb shit from pharma, so I feel less dumb in contrast

>undergrad: b.a. economics (focus on history of economic thought)
>masters: m.sc. applied economics (econometrics/economic forecasting)
Lessons learned would be how to understand statistical modeling and how use statistics to make informed decisions. Ended up doing project management in the aerospace industry. so I use literally 0% of my degree kek.

Do not under ANY circumstances focus on history of economic thought. It is entirely useless in the marketplace. I have a significant understanding of Smith, Marx, Say, Marginalism, Keynesian economics and it's derivatives (new, post, etc.), Austrian, blah blah blah. All great stuff to know if you're interested in classical political economy, philosophy, blah blah. But, yeah, pointless. Glad I took a stats/math heavy masters. Got accepted into a heterodox PhD program because of my background in economic thought, but didn't go.

Long story short, economics, particularly microeconomics, financial economics, and econometrics/forecasting is extremely in demand and useful, but don't be a dumbass like me and do economic thought as an undergrad. As stated, ended up doing project management anyways. Happened to have a HR person who "struggled" with basic micro/macro and hired me huehuehue. For some reason normies are impressed with econ, but it's a pretty low-tier degree imo. There are much better options but it's a solid alternative to a business degree.

Willing to answer questions about econ in uni if anyone has any.

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That's why meta analysis exist, we discover a lot of papers that under rough scrutiny we can say "wait, this is dumb shit" but the results of meta analysis are usually not understand or cared by general population

Psychology

Taught me a lo of useful coping skills for all sorts of situations in life, and also how to deal with people better.

I want to say Jack didily shit. But there are people that I know without a degree and they seem to be pretty stupid in some way.

There is something missing that I cant pinpoint

The amount of onions in that image is beyond measure.

Maybe the mental way they process information given to them? That's usually the neurological change college does to everybody

I didn't learn anything from my degree but it did get me my first job by pretending I learned something

Unironically glad I majored in philosophy, landed a dope job based on knowing people anyway and now I don’t think like a fucking retard. I can’t stand most people though, almost no one actually knows what logic is, let alone understands how to apply one of its systems, and most people just cloak their raw feelings in the pretense of forethought, hating or preferring things for no deeper reason than their surface-level sense.

So it’s lonely but constantly validating

that's because the whole "college is a scam" argument is a big ass fallacy. Only people who chose shitty courses like gender studies, arts, language studies or some field that has 0 market applicability complain about it.

College changed my view on the world completely, and also taught me to think for myself and analyse events around me analytically instead of just taking a "specialists" opinion on the matter. I also learned how to learn for myself, which was the most important of the things I guess

I like logic, but only met few people in my life that had a solid grasp on it without resorting to logical fallacies when debating

How did you learn to think for yourself when profs are all about muh authoritey?

I disagree about market applicability. Even though I know we are moving towards a neoliberal-globalised world, not every degree (or even the majority of them) need to be "marketable." This trend towards individual maximization of our human capital is just a giant fucking trick world governments have pulled on the average joe. There is nothing wrong with knowledge for the sake of knowledge. But when you attached unlimited government loans, Jewish usury, debt slavery, etc. on all this... idk, it just isn't right. There's more to life than money and the marketability of your resume. I wish neoliberal thinking wasn't the default of today, but it is unfortunately.

Critical thinking and math from my chemistry degree. And just about everything from my pharmacy degree is relevant for my job.

Not a whole lot, but the pussy was good.

Just having a bachelor's even from my shit tier state school got me a shit job as a big highly reputed company, which I quit after a few months to work a slightly less bad job at another company. My accounting and finance classes taught me a lot about Excel at the very least.

You need to understand that the authority figure of a professor is just a necessary evil because he needs to assume all his students are brainlets.

The same way there are all sorts of students, there are all sorts of professor as well. I became a colleague of a professor when I joined my college incubator. It was an academic exercise most of the time with no real world consequences, but I would get to pick his brain and talk to him about a bunch of Economic issues and what he thought of them. That by itself was worth the whole $ invested in my course for sure

I agree with you. I'm not saying field of study X, Y or Z is better or worse because of market applicability. All knowledge has it's value. But in America you do have to look at college education through an investment lense. After all you have to invest a huge sum of money, and you do so expecting that in the future, the money you spend will pay itself due to the skills you acquired.

People that go into fields with high unemployment rates will argue that college is a scam mainly because of this, which is the point I was trying to disagree on, and not to create any sort of relativism between different fields of study

Fair enough, and you're right based upon current conditions within America. Not sure what the solution is whether that be free two-year community college/trade school like Tennessee or a full free ride like some European countries, but something has got to give on this college shit. I have friends who have dug themselves into serious debt holes that they will never get out of. Some have even married girls with $80k+ debt. That is monumental amounts. I guess my frustration is that it never should have got to this point to begin with. But I offer no solutions anyways, I'm just bitching.

15 an hour plus tips at the counter.

You sound like a faggot.

You don't feel like your mind already had that yearing for growth despite forcing into a college prison? You don't think you could've learned your facts and methods elsewhere for free? Think about the things you actually do in everyday life at work. Do you really think it requires 200k and x amount of years to be part of that club?

Being good at what you do requires practice. I think that can be gained from personal experience and coached experiences just from having a passionate intrest in what you do and the people you interact with. College is for people that somehow don't know what they've always been good at.

i went for marketing, and weirdly / unironically learned how to spot low-cap shitcoins based on market sentiment. for instance, VRA will probably 5x this month. how do I know? dig into the facts.