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I think the nerd community thinks that CS or math skills are the important skills and they drastically under value other skill sets.

• evo_9 16y ago
  Without a doubt. The most important thing I learned in college was accepting/understanding criticism - not algebra or philosophy or how many moons orbit jupiter (all cool/good to know too btw). Most other skills can be learned on your own. But think about how hard it is to learn to accept and understand criticism. If you receive it from your spouse, it usually causes a fight; or from a close friend or family member - ditto, also not good. But being hammered in a peer-review style class where it would be somewhat absurd to think 'hey I'm right, my professor with 25+ years experience, not to mention the 15 other smart peers in my class, are all wrong'. Of course there were always one or two people that really did think they were right and the professor/classmates were all wrong. They wonder why life is always so hard, and why the entire world is against them, never considering that it might be them having the problem, not the rest of us...