I went to UC Merced and had a great time in my computer science course. The professors were passionate about what they were teaching and honestly I became a muc

I went to UC Merced and had a great time in my computer science course. The professors were passionate about what they were teaching and honestly I became a much better engineer (not programmer) by learning the course material and applying those skills. I'm mainly a web dev now but courses like operating systems and computer architecture have concepts really can be abstracted to other systems if you know how it works fundamentally. I was a self taught programmer before I went to college; I think it was a bit humbling to be in that space as well with high flying theory in CS and was amazed how you could apply that to real life concepts. That being said; if you're paying for school, make the most of it otherwise it's a waste, most engineering programs are pretty good and have at least some passionate professors behind them.