The most important thing you can learn while at college is the skill of learning. The ability to quickly absorb disparate information and apply it to the task a

The most important thing you can learn while at college is the skill of learning. The ability to quickly absorb disparate information and apply it to the task at hand. The information you learn in college is worthless. You will never use it. However, the skill you pick up as a consequence of learning that information is invaluable and will serve you well for the rest of your life. I work on something new and foreign to me on a daily basis ... that skill allows me to learn quickly and solve the problem at hand. Granted, you can acquire the same skill by going to the library every day and reading up on a myriad of various subjects, then applying what you learned in self-created projects ... but ... that requires a will of steel and frankly, college just seems more fun.