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Ask HN: What do you wish that someone had told you before you attended college?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you wish that someone had told you before you attended college?

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Post by User8712 » Fri, Feb 21, 2014, 1:12 AM UTC

gschiller wrote: post #9

o0-0o wrote: post #6

It's not what you learn, it's where you go.

Seriously? I'm going to UPenn btw.

That would highly depend on what career you're choosing. I graduated 8 years ago, and since then freelanced full-time for countless individuals, businesses, and fortune 100 companies. I haven't once been asked where I studied.

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish that someone had told you before you attended college?

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Post by gorideyourbike » Wed, Feb 26, 2014, 3:10 PM UTC

Don't go, spend two years teaching yourself what you want to know, get the same knowledge (or better) with less debt.

Listen to your advisor, they (for the most part) know what they're talking about.

If you don't have a few internships under your belt or a well developed portfolio of personal work, don't bother graduating.

Get a job where you can sit and do your homework. You'll be making money while doing something you have to get done anyways.

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