I did a BA and an MA in the arts. I don't work in the arts now, 10 years later, but on a daily basis I see how that experience gave me tools and skills I didn't

I did a BA and an MA in the arts. I don't work in the arts now, 10 years later, but on a daily basis I see how that experience gave me tools and skills I didn't have at the end of high school that help me succeed. Just in terms of professionalism, communication skills, and being exposed to new ideas and challenged about how I see the world. As well as, occasionally, a specific piece of knowledge being useful (eg I'll do musical transcriptions from time to time). I was a disaster coming out of high school, and college was the ideal environment for me to become more independent and less of a jerk. I almost studied commuter science, but ended up picking music and English, which has led me such different and interesting places. One caveat: I come from a country where you don't have to go into debt to attend college. This frames the experience very differently, I think.