There are also plenty of very useful things that I learned in my degree that I never would have been interested enough to learn on my own. Subjects like projec

There are also plenty of very useful things that I learned in my degree that I never would have been interested enough to learn on my own. Subjects like project management, requirements gathering, and other sorts of non-coding topics are extremely handy to have experience and education with, but not "sexy" enough for (most) people to really learn about them in their free time.