Your parents pay for college? Quite a lucky fella, ain'cha? My entire education is riding on 20 year loans, I'm graduating with a mortgage. $68,900 at last count, not including the interest aggregate for the private loan deferments.
Your education most certainly has value. You learn math, programming, science, whatever. Hopefully you then apply that basic knowledge to solving problems in the future. In addition, you learn how to work with (or without) other people, how to assign yourself to a task successfully, and when to draw the line. Eventually, just like Ron said, you know it's time to stop fixing shit. Me, when I reach that point, I pile on the BS so it's not so obvious the rest of my results are useless, and I go to sleep.
I like that "creative punting" comment actually... I have a vision of a certain professor's head being held up by Lucy as I run to kick it.. and promptly fall flat on my ass. Weee!
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Date: 2003-04-08 09:02 pm (UTC)Your education most certainly has value. You learn math, programming, science, whatever. Hopefully you then apply that basic knowledge to solving problems in the future. In addition, you learn how to work with (or without) other people, how to assign yourself to a task successfully, and when to draw the line. Eventually, just like Ron said, you know it's time to stop fixing shit. Me, when I reach that point, I pile on the BS so it's not so obvious the rest of my results are useless, and I go to sleep.
I like that "creative punting" comment actually... I have a vision of a certain professor's head being held up by Lucy as I run to kick it.. and promptly fall flat on my ass. Weee!