I graduated with a humanities degree from Penn, spent a decade working and eventually became a self-taught developer, then obtained a masters degree in compute

I graduated with a humanities degree from Penn, spent a decade working and eventually became a self-taught developer, then obtained a masters degree in computer engineering through Boston University’s LEAP program. While I agree with most points in the article, getting my master’s degree was definitely the right choice for me. The program I attended also included undergraduate courses to ramp up to the master’s, so it is a little different than what is being critiqued here. The main omission of the article is that while the author feigns (or projects) surprise that universities aren’t entirely dedicated to teaching, they omit the major benefit of _opportunity_ that students get when attending universities. I entered the program knowing that I wanted to focus on things like cloud computing and k8s; it turned out my university had a partnership with one of the two main companies working in k8s and this allowed me an opportunity to get an internship. That’s just my personal example, but the connections and opportunities from attending a university are a pretty fundamental part of the experience and outcomes. It is the other half of the coin for the individual students in the visa cash cow story.