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Re: The promise of college for our generation

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College is what you put into it and by many is looked at as a measure of proof that you can work to a goal you don't need to reach but want to. That is why it is a litmus test used by many employers.
This is almost exactly what my first supervisor told me when I was an EE co-op at Hughes Aircraft in 1979. He was actually scolding me for getting a bad grade (supervisors received their students' grade reports back in the day), and said that the only reason he'd hire a college graduate over a similarly skilled person who had spent four years doing something else is that the college graduate had demonstrated ability to persevere through difficulty.

See also: the best twenty years of my life, and are you going to college to get a degree, or an education?
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