I don't have a CS degree nor did I attend a school that even offered a CS degree so my college experience was quite different. I attended Emerson College where

I don't have a CS degree nor did I attend a school that even offered a CS degree so my college experience was quite different. I attended Emerson College where most of the degrees are in the arts and communications and everything there was focused on not becoming a corporate stooge but often an entrepreneur. Most work was project based often with the idea that your work would help to build your portfolio. Most importantly, your work outside of the classroom working on films, recording bands, writing marketing campaigns with clubs or on your own was just as much of the curriculum, possibly more so. I learned that only a small percentage of knowledge was coming from my professor at the front of the room but from the people around me and the work I was doing on my own. If I didn't take that "work outside of the work" attitude from college I think I would have had are a hard time getting motivated to learn to program and do other ventures like doing freelance work or working on passion projects on my own. Sorry but college is what you make it.