Yeah, be careful.
The greatest fallacy about college is that you're trained to work. Not so. In fact, you're trained by people who have often only ever held the job of learning and they teach you to learn. They do not teach you to work because they do not often have strong connections to the commercial world.
I've met many, many graduates in my field and the lions share of them have absolutely no virtue, other than that they could learn. They have no experience, very little initiative and nobody told them that they would need to work outside of university learning, to get themselves up to scratch so when they came out, their prospective employers could pick them, instead of the complete and utter useless cnuts that most of them seem, fresh out.
They come to interviews and you give them the slightest angle that isn't within that very narrow perspective of how they learn and they fall over. They fall over with very dumb questions that at the right time, when they were actually doing that subject, they'd have nailed.
I was one of them. In my final year, I had this intense question going on in my head. "Yeah, but how do I get paid for this - how do I bring value?". A question that was never, ever answered during that time. My virtue was that I was interested in programming and had done it over the years myself, so it wasn't hard to immediately get into it, commercially. None of that was really from my degree, that was from me teaching myself to work outside of university, not just learning shit and regurgitating onto a test paper and promptly forgetting all of it.
There are reasons to go to college but you should not go to college with the idea that you're becoming commercially viable when you walk out. You're going there to jump hoops so that your first employer can give you tasks and know that you might not be a complete fuckup. You will cost your employer plenty of money for them to get value from most of you. But they'll take the ones who showed the initiative first, of course.
