Question for those who are in or have gone to college. Were you there to actually learn things? Or just get a degree?

Current college student in ICS program: both. I was doing self-taught code for a while but I knew I wouldn’t be able to learn enough while also working full time to get me into a career as quick as if I just went to school. My college is well renowned here so I know just having that diploma will be well-received, but also I’m learning things I never would have learned on my own.

I also went to uni for a humanities degree, and that was purely for learning. I didn’t expect a job/career to come out of it, though I had planned on pursuing grad school which would have led to a career, but undergrad was just a learning exp for me... until I realized how much debt I got myself into and how I’d better start thinking of a lucrative career path ASAP lol

In my case -- I had only 2 disciplines that made me learn smth new and were interesting. All the rest -- just for a degree.

I went to learn; I tried staying for the degree.

After two and a half years of putting up with expensive, totally pointless classes "taught" by infuriating and/or unskilled teachers, I gave up and taught myself. It was a good decision.

Still going to college. Love it and doing it pretty well. I teach myself many things, too, so life is easy so far.

@Hubot-0x58 I also didn't learn anything in college. Expensive and pointless waste of time. 😡