How often have you asked your plumber to see his/her degree? Would you get brain surgery from someone self taught on google?
Creds are just that. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/credentials I would not pay for a credential unless you knew the value exchange of the credential in your long term plans. Trevyn On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:38:24 -0600, Mac Newbold <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
