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September 30, 2024

If you measure return on my college tuition based on what I got out of my degree, I would go so far to say that I wasted my parents’ money 😬.

I hope to be a parent sometime in the near future, and it got me thinking.

How did my parents handle me going to college?

How will I handle my kids going to college?

I was fed the standard “you can do/be whatever you want!” gospel many of you are familiar with.

And I kind of just assumed I would regurgitate the party line to my kids.

And then I had some life experience and realized that what I learned in college was almost worthless, relatively speaking at least.

Teaching myself to write code inspired this post on one of my big regrets in life: not studying engineering in college.