Standardized tests can get you out of most "breadth requirements". That's how I picked up minors in both chemistry and cognitive science.
Had I known then what I know now, I would have skipped even more of the fluff and spent my last two years splitting my time between classes and internships instead of learning additional facts and skills that ultimately had no marketable value.
I can count on zero hands the number of times I have profited by taking those university classes not directly relevant to abstract mathematics, computer software, or electronics hardware.
The supposed value of "well rounded graduates and alumni" seems very much like self-serving propaganda now. How about instead of spending three hours a week writing literary analyses of famous books, the university sponsors and organizes three mandatory hours of weekly networking events with real workers from relevant industries? That would have been worth the tuition. To this day, I still can't understand why anyone would want to read _Walden Two_ instead of doing something more useful, like separating and categorizing all the marshmallows from a box of Lucky Charms, or removing potential airway blockages in the nasal passages with the fingers.
Had I known then what I know now, I would have skipped even more of the fluff and spent my last two years splitting my time between classes and internships instead of learning additional facts and skills that ultimately had no marketable value.
I can count on zero hands the number of times I have profited by taking those university classes not directly relevant to abstract mathematics, computer software, or electronics hardware.
The supposed value of "well rounded graduates and alumni" seems very much like self-serving propaganda now. How about instead of spending three hours a week writing literary analyses of famous books, the university sponsors and organizes three mandatory hours of weekly networking events with real workers from relevant industries? That would have been worth the tuition. To this day, I still can't understand why anyone would want to read _Walden Two_ instead of doing something more useful, like separating and categorizing all the marshmallows from a box of Lucky Charms, or removing potential airway blockages in the nasal passages with the fingers.