Its cool that you got to spend time producing an album and writing about campus nightlife for credit, but some people need to make a living, not play student into adulthood. I cannot think of anything more privileged: a university system forcing you to take superfluous classes to become "well rounded" while being dumped out at the other end with tens of thousands of dollars of debt with skills that hold no marketable value in a world that is uber expensive to live in.
These are all "marketable values" for software engineers that CS classes don't teach:
* being able to write prose well
* creativity
* genrally being interesting and fun to work with
Yeah, the mountainous cost of 4yr college sucks and I indeed was in a very privileged position being able to afford it. But I would rather that society lifts everyone else up by making a "well rounded education" (why is this term ironic now??) affordable than we just eliminate all nuance and exploration from college programs so that we can pump out grads with "marketable values" at the lowest possible cost.
It's complicated, for sure. Ideally both options would exist. You can get a bachelor's or master's degree fully online, now. Maybe that fits the need you see.
