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Originally Posted by RaMoore
And on a even more tangent note: because after even a few years of working a job a degree is just "a piece of paper" it's important to not overpay for it. Students in my experience rarely are informed on how the cost of their education can have long term effects on their personal financial welfare. If you graduate with little to no debt then your new salary will take you much much farther than with a looming 20k, 50k, or even 80k student loan on you or your family.
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Wow, excellent points about the financial aspects of this issue.
For someone who wants to be an embedded systems engineer, no college is going to teach you what you need to know. (notwithstanding that someone might join this thread and claim otherwise, which would make for good discussion).
They'll take your money, and give you a degree, but it's kind of like them taking your money under false pretenses.
As I mentioned in another thread, the topic of of which I can't recall, two of the best hires I ever made held degrees, but they both held music degrees.
Their degrees allowed me to interview them (company policy).
Their brilliance and passion made me hire them.
They never made me regret that decision.
But kids, really
stay in school, just don't rely too heavily on the weight of the paper.