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Why are you in school? If your goal is improved career options, stay. If your goal is education, drop out, and teach yourself. I say this as someone who recen
by Yxven 15y ago
Why are you in school?
If your goal is improved career options, stay.
If your goal is education, drop out, and teach yourself.
I say this as someone who recently chose the latter.
- modwest 15y agoWell, that's the thing. I am mostly just here to learn the hard stuff I wouldn't have occasion to teach myself. Discrete math, data structures, etc. Plus, just based on my experience of constant job offers from networking and having a decent-sized number of repos on github, I don't feel like my options are all that limited, with regard to companies I want to work at. I just don't want to have regrets in 3-5 or 15 or 30 years.
- Yxven 15y agoThat was actually my reason for wanting to go back to school. I wanted to be able to ask questions in case I got stuck learning math. I ended up with horrible math professors (each with 10+ years of experience) and had to teach myself discrete math, linear algebra, and differential equations. I hope you will have better luck with professors than I, but in hindsight, I would have been far better off financially and emotionally if I hired a private tutor when needed instead of paying tuition.
- modwest 15y agoYes, my calculus professor this semester is terrible.