7. We had one student on the edge of homelessness, was $400 short on bills and almost had to quit because of that. I personally loaned him the money, and his income moved from $10/hr to $70k+/yr. It only took $400, but he didn’t have anywhere to get that from. Insane.
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Please don’t diss universities - there’s more to life than one’s career - and IMO a big cause of SV’s failure to solve the world’s actual hard problems is the over-emphasis on making code, and so little understanding of the breadth of our humanity.
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In the BS programs I attended (Computer Science and Photojournalism majors, simultaneously) I learned to think about the world more fully. I wasn’t just "taught a trade.” That sort of experience - language and culture courses, even phys ed - helped me grow up.
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I know many people enrolled in degree programs at state schools and community colleges who know there are shorter paths to “jobs” but who are enriching themselves in many other essential ways - stuff they didn’t get growing up. These are not rich kids btw.
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Let’s say you grew up poor and blue collar, one parent who couldn’t always be there, unprivileged area (that’s most of the US btw)… college/university is one giant opportunity to learn how the world really works, cuz nobody back home taught you, because nobody back home knows.
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