Poll of the Day > Is it rational to worry about not having learned anything useful during college?

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I also spend countless nights worrying if I'd learnt anything at all. Then I start panicking and start studying my old textbooks because I'm afraid I had forgotten what I had learned. And to me, this seems like a waste, to have studied something in college and to forget it after graduating. Nowadays, I'm far too fatigued to start studying again; frankly, the fact that there is no real-world application to what I study (as far as I know) just discourages me further from doing it to begin with. I'm feeling unsure of why I do this to myself. My main conjecture is that my life is figuratively empty and lacks meaning and purpose. It's just this same existential crisis I've been going through for over a year. Every day, I ask myself more and more often the point of anything I am doing and if it actually mattered in the end. Anyway, is it rational to worry about stuff like this?

I must have these answers.
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No one cares if you learned anything in college. Its all worthless in the job environment. Maybe 5% of what you pick up has practical application. The rest is just theory. It gets you in the door with some company and then you learn from there.

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Smarkil posted...

No one cares if you learned anything in college. Its all worthless in the job environment. Maybe 5% of what you pick up has practical application. The rest is just theory. It gets you in the door with some company and then you learn from there.

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Your degree is proof that for 4 years you could motivate and organize yourself well enough to get work done. The actual knowledge you learn in school is borderline worthless in most cases.

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Thats why i dropped out. I was taking required classes that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do in live. I saw it as a waste of money and time. So finished the semester and never enrolled again.

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Only 25% of people get jobs in the field of their majors


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about as rational as getting angry at your brother just for asking some questions about college
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I never finished my degree and ended up working in a completely different field, but I've still gotten a lot of use out of the things I learned. I can understand why you'd worry about that, but I suspect that you'll be surprised at how many unexpected uses you'll find for the knowledge you picked up from school.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-7TEfmk-jQ

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Only 46% of all college graduates can even fully achieve orgasm

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Mead posted...

Only 46% of all college graduates can even fully achieve orgasm

I mean, there are just SO MANY of them, I'm working as hard as I can.

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