College Drop-out.
My computer science teachers were like... well, the best one bragged about how he stopped studying and updating his knowledge at the time of punched cards.
Enough said.
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#32Dropped out of school with lowest degree possible (due to so many missing hours or better say days). With my education background I would only get a job as a garbageman. I don't regret it.
The garbageman is the smartest person in the Dilbert comics ... and I've learned the lesson those strips are promoting. Performance in school can not be directly correlated to performance in the workplace.
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#33This is something I often wonder. Where does a 5-year engineering course fit? BE? BS?
Depends on the country, but those are moving towards being structured as masters degrees by the end. Many U.S. universities now have the 5-year engineering option structured as a "5th-year masters" add-on year, on top of a 4-year engineering degree. And the Bologna Process in the EU requires that the old 5-year degrees (Diplom and similar) be split into BS/MS as a 3/2 split.
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#34Only commenting because I have a weird combo of votes. Left school at 16 (the then-legal end of "high school" in the UK). Last year, back to education for the first time, starting an MSc, aged 32 (industry experience related to the subject being my way in). So high school "dropout" and pursuing post-grad(!)
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#35I dropped out just before graduation. Never looked back.
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#36One degree in making stuff and one degree in making stuff up.
So... one degree in engineering, and one degree in liberal arts? ;-)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you regret it (unless it's too personal)?
I was at a state school paying a reasonable tuition to learn from a quality computer science program. I regret it because although I have written all sorts of frontend code, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, managed servers, I have still not "finished" learning what a CompSci student learns. I couldn't write my own compiler, I can't tell you which sorting method is fastest for certain data sets, etc. I have learned solely by…
Yup. In the same boat as you. Considering returning this year, but it's so damned expensive and I don't make much money.
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#38College Grad (liberal arts BA from UPenn).
If I could go back and do it all over again, I'd at least have minored in CS.
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#39Dropped out because it was oh so boring. I wish it was like Coursera classes, but we didn't get to start actual programming until maybe third year, and I didn't have the patience so I dropped out on second year. Don't regret it, although I partly regret choosing a local university instead of trying harder and maybe going abroad. On the other hand, I really enjoy doing actual work in the field and it would be hard to…
It’s not the job of university professors to motivate/entertain you; being motivated to learn is the students’ job and every minute the professor spends entertaining disinterested students is a waste of time for those who actually want to learn things.
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#40Other: Grad student drop out.