I can't really point out what exctaly it is, but it did make a difference for me. I did a did a 4year apprenticeship in IT and Programming before deciding to g

I can't really point out what exctaly it is, but it did make a difference for me. I did a did a 4year apprenticeship in IT and Programming before deciding to go to college. It was all fine, could do real coding for a good company. I knew the syntax of a few languages, database design, uml, some basics of how webservers work,... But it didn't feel proper. It was more like a lot of things, but only superficially. College on the other hand felt much more in-depth. I was really given the time to properly understand the things I was doing. Even the "maths" bits helped. E.g. vector maths changed the way how I reason about little unrelated things sometimes.