What is the most important thing you learned in College?

Answer 1

College is like life, you get rewarded by the effort you put into it. I have seen that some people go to school to study the field they are passionate about, but when it come times to put bread on the table the degree does not help them too much.

For example, I have a friend that I have known a long time, and he loves "art history" but he works as a front desk agent in a hotel that pays about $12. an hour.

There are a lot of degrees in communication that are in entry level management jobs.

College gives you the tools to be able to possibly make a living doing what you love...I just hope you can find it.

So, choose your degree carefully because it is expensive and completing it does not necessarily mean financial freedom. You could end up like my friend, a front desk agent for the last 15 years.

Answer 2

Really, the point of all education is to learn how to learn and think critically. This includes organizing and making sense of information in you mind. Once you can do this you can be good at everything. Secondly, don't do it for the money cause it really takes a toll having a job your not satisfied with. Remember, your job is where you are going to spend some 3,500 days over a 40 year period being. That's easily a third of your life. The rest of the time your either asleep or with your family, a third each way. I work in the IT field and sure you can make good money but my dream is environmental science. Good thing this IT thing is only temporary. Building computers is a hobby of mine and I still don't like being in this field, so, be careful. If you have that dream go after it cause if you let it stay a dream you never be satisfied with what you are doing. Also, a liberal arts degree may be cool but that degree on your own can get you a job doing anything. Not even a teacher. You will have to get another degree with it. On the other hand its a great bonus to many other degrees. My wife is studying to be a speech pathologist and there is good money there. With a lib degree on top of that you can easily work as for a school district and make really good money. There is opportunity everywhere you just have to get into the subject you want to study before you can see it. Not everything is so obvious. Don't be afraid of uncertainty.

Answer 3

As far as attitude, I learned that I was bright but brightness wasn't enough. I learned you had to work like hell to get ahead in anything, and that you had to keep working at things, keep asking questions, and learn from other people as well as from books and teachers if you wanted to become, and to remain, knowledgeable.

I learned three specific techniques that I've used since then:

1. Compare things, ideas, propositions, courses of action.
2. In matters of opinion, don't trust a single source and look for sources that clash with each other. Include opinions that you don't personally like.
3. What seems logical isn't always true.

Answer 4

what i learned didnt come from sitting in class. Up to the point i got in college, i was told when to go to class, to church, eat, and sleep (too some extent). In college, no one was making me go to class. I quickly learned that if i didnt go to class i would make bad grades. I learned that i had to make myself do the things that i had always been told to do in order to keep up a good lifestyle and that is probably the most valuable lesson that you could ever learn.

Answer 5

That I should have gone to a Technical School and learned a trade!!!

Answer 6

lots of things but i think self-motivation, discipline and good time management were the top ones

Answer 7

That undergraduate degrees are worthless unless they have engineering in them or you are content making 35k a year.

Answer 8

That I didn't know squat. This realization is the beggining of wisdom.

Answer 9

Studying is not effective when watching the opposite sex.

Answer 10

There really is a place where I belong. For me that's art. When you find your best major, you find where you belong.