My most valuable classes were my electives. Philosophy, Anthropology, & English Lit. especially. My major was architecture, and the design classes gave me a se

My most valuable classes were my electives. Philosophy, Anthropology, & English Lit. especially. My major was architecture, and the design classes gave me a sense of organization and elegant problem solving that are useful even as I build web apps for a living. My drafting classes were useless - thank god I taught my self to use a pirated copy of AutoCAD at the time. My classes in concrete and steel used large books of tables to look things up, which I am pretty sure can be easily handled by computers nowadays. Data Structures and Algorithms would be the only thing from a traditional comp sci program I would have benefited from, I think, but I've done quite a bit of self directed learning in those areas, and am not worse off for it. If I had it to do over again, I would've skipped school and tried to apprentice myself to people working on cool things instead. But I love to educate myself, and learn wherever I am. Some people are better off being guided, and those at upper-tier schools will benefit 90% from the connection they make, and 10% from the classes.