in my OOP class the prof spent most of the time telling us OOP is dying, but we have to learn it anyway.

I really ... really ... really hope you don't mean Object Oriented Programming...

I thaught it just brought to life

That's not such an awful idea.

When you are out of school & in your first dev job, you are 99% gonna be working on old code. Functional may be the new hotness, but there're a LOT of ways to approach a problem, and OOP has been out there for a very long time, and you'll find it in 'most every codebase

You simply can't issue a computer science degree of any kind to students who don't know how OOP works. It's the basis of almost every framework around.