On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Where did everyone go to college/university for their bachelor's? And did > you feel like it was worth your time and money? I'm trying to decide whether > to go/where to go.
I went to the University of Utah, and can highly recommend their computer science program. To me, the most important things I learned there weren't details about Language X or Framework Y, but the core concepts and principles that apply across disciplines and regardless of the specifics of what tools you're using. As for whether or not you should get a bachelors degree, it depends partly on what you want to do in the future. Having it will make it easier to advance in your career, and get paid more than if you didn't have it generally, and you'll be a lot better at what you do that you probably otherwise would have been. In general, it feels a lot like getting a BS degree now is a lot like getting a high school diploma was 50ish years ago, or before finishing high school became compulsory. The kinds of things that you couldn't do without a HS diploma are now becoming the things you can't do easily with a AS[/AA] or BS[/BA] degree. Similarly, having a BS back then is probably more comparable to having a master's degree now, with the bar being raised across the board. If you want to stand out from other people you're competing with for jobs and career opportunities, having more education is a great way to do it, especially when you can leverage that education into actually performing better at your job. Mac -- Mac Newbold [email protected] 801-694-6334 _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
