I’ll admit to being one of those students that would often complain that my courses were too heavy on the theoretical, and light in practicality. But looking back, I’m glad my professors were bright enough to not succumb to the corporate pressure to become trade schools.

University lasts 4 or 5 years at most, while one has the rest of their life, some 40+ years, to develop experience in commercial development. I may never get another chance to study calculus, algorithms, or even statistics. While I wasn’t so happy to be taking these courses at the time, I now am so thankful to have been forced to push my brain to its limits and learn as much as I did.

Even furthermore with regards to the non science classes that I felt were too easy and beneath an ‘aspiring engineer’. Now I spend 50 hours a week on MVC frameworks, class libraries, and Oracle schemas; parts of my brain go dull without the daily influence of subjects like sociology, Spanish, and even philosophy.

Screw greedy employers and corporate HR types that demand recent grads to hit the ground running. In fact, most of them don’t even do that anymore as they just import a few dozen H1Bs from India, and screw the next generation of developers!