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Where did you go to college?
gamozo:
I am not from Britain, I'm from the US, but I have so many friends in Europe who get confused when I say college, so I've just grown used to saying uni. You do a great job summing everything up, I do really see how I need the degree to open doors, I guess I'm testing my feet in the water first before I jump on something.
IanB:
One thing I would suggest, if you are thinking about an engineering degree, is to pick one of the "hard" disciplines like electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering. Avoid the the "soft" disciplines like software engineering. Software honestly doesn't gain much respect in business or industry and considering the costs involved a software engineering degree is not good value for money. If there is one subject that is easily self-taught, it is programming.
westfw:
I have an EE degree from one of those Ivy League colleges (U of Pennsylvania, 1981), after waltzing through my primary education. It was plenty challenging, though not always in interesting ways. There were "honors" classes, grad classes open to undergrads, work and/or research opportunities. The hardest part was fitting in the things I wanted to learn, in a way that still resulted in a degree in 4 years (EE and CS were quite separate in those days.) But an Ivy EE degree is (was?) not particularly hobbyist-satisfying. There is a lot of theory, and math, and physics; stuff that fills in the gaps that would otherwise be left (as Ian says.) Not much "actually making stuff."
OTOH, the idea that I'd be able to take extra classes every semester (as I'd done in HS) fell by the wayside REALLY quick... (On the third hand, there was a semester or two where physics, math, and EE classes were all actually using the same math, and that was pretty cool.)
FreeThinker:
School of Hard Knocks and life experience...... I don't recommend it but to paraphrase Jerri E 'Failure is good' and you NEVER forget the smell of magic smoke 8) :)
Hypernova:
University of Auckland - BE in Computer Systems, really more like embedded systems.
University of Queensland - ME in Engineering Science, didn't really want to go but I made a deal with my mother that if I would if I couldn't find a proper job by Jan last year. Job market in NZ was shit.
Doesn't matter what you think of a degree, 99.999% of the time without that ticket your application will get tossed straight into the recycling bin by HR.
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