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College vs Start-up - It's not about the job

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Re: College vs Start-up - It's not about the job

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I am now a senior in high school and this year I am taking classes in Data Structures, Assembly Language and Shell Programming. I have already taken classes in C, Unix and Java. For me, it has been great to be able to take classes that I am actually interested in instead of just the ones that involve the least work like many of my friends have (CS is the only department with that many specialized classes). I wasn't f…

God damn, go out and have a drink son. You have the rest of your life to learn how to traverse a fucking graph.

Graphs are more fun than alcohol.

(Adding some geeks of the opposite sex (or same sex if preferred) may increase the fun, though.)

Re: College vs Start-up - It's not about the job

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My college loans are by far the best investment I've ever made. I went to a good in-state public school (Purdue), and lived very cheap. If they weren't at less than 3% interest they would have been paid off in one year from the extra money it earned me at work. I don't understand the blanket hatred of college; it appears to come from people who spent >$100k/yr and are now drowning in that debt. If doe properly it's a…

$100k/year?! I thought even the expensive ones maxed out around $50k/year?

Yeah, so there are only a small number of colleges that expensive.

How about we say $100k of debt for a degree?

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