For me the most valuable part of college was discovering how much I liked computer science. If I had picked a career when I was 17 it would not have been softwa

For me the most valuable part of college was discovering how much I liked computer science. If I had picked a career when I was 17 it would not have been software engineer. Once I was in college, it was pretty simple to take a computer science class to see if I liked it, and I really did like it, even more than I had enjoyed teaching myself to program during my k-12 years. When I got bored with my original choice of major, it then seemed like a good idea to switch into computer science, and I’ve been happy with that choice ever since. It is a shame that college is so expensive, but to me the real problem is people taking out loans to go through degree programs that don’t give you a high expected income. If you take on a lot of loans to get a CS degree from MIT, it’s probably going to be a worthwhile investment. If you take on those same loans to get a philosophy degree from Tulane, it’s a bad idea.