__________ is/are overrated.

[Rothman]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

[Scott5114]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Rothman? More like Wrongman.

[Rothman]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Rothman? More like Wrongman.

Scott can go Rott.

[Scott5114]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Rothman? More like Wrongman.

Scott can go Rott.

"The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers" is the Olive Garden of ideas.

[Rothman]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Rothman? More like Wrongman.

Scott can go Rott.

"The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers" is the Olive Garden of ideas.

Hm.  That comment is quite well-layered.

[Roadgeekteen]

I enjoyed college because it allowed me to delay becoming a real adult. I certainly was not ready to be a real adult at 18 (barely am now).

[kphoger]

"The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers" is the Olive Garden of ideas.

Hm.  That comment is quite well-layered.

Like lasagna from Olive Garden.

[mgk920]

Or nowadays the insane levels of (unforgivable) debt that is being incurred for truly useless degrees.  I have zero sympathy for those people.

Mike

Me neither.  Institutions that sell useless credentials should be held liable for fraud.

The purpose of a degree or credential is merely to certify that you took a prescribed series of courses on the subject. There has never been any intent or guarantee of it being "useful" for anything outside of the university. Universities award degrees to show that the person is qualified to conduct research on the subject at a university—the idea of a degree from a university being a ticket to employment in a certain field is a fairly recent idea.

Found the university shill.

Time to get the federal government OUT of the student loan biz AGAIN, re-privatizing it.  As it is now, it is fast becoming a real lingering and growing disaster from the late 'zeros' era.

Mike

[Molandfreak]

Or nowadays the insane levels of (unforgivable) debt that is being incurred for truly useless degrees.  I have zero sympathy for those people.

Mike

Me neither.  Institutions that sell useless credentials should be held liable for fraud.

The purpose of a degree or credential is merely to certify that you took a prescribed series of courses on the subject. There has never been any intent or guarantee of it being "useful" for anything outside of the university. Universities award degrees to show that the person is qualified to conduct research on the subject at a university—the idea of a degree from a university being a ticket to employment in a certain field is a fairly recent idea.

Found the university shill.

Time to get the federal government OUT of the student loan biz AGAIN, re-privatizing it.  As it is now, it is fast becoming a real lingering and growing disaster from the late 'zeros' era.

Mike

Jumping from "degrees are completely useless" to "certain degrees are useless" and now "government should get out of student loans" tells me you aren't actually as informed on this issue as you think you are.

[DTComposer]

Calling a college degree, any college degree, "truly useless" is overrated.

[Molandfreak]

Calling a college degree, any college degree, "truly useless" is overrated.

There are some alternative medicine degrees that are technically accredited, but push a lot of pseudoscience or outright false information about dangerous practices like bloodletting. I would say that is useless and anyone who wants to get into alternative medicine would be better off getting an MD/DO and getting an integrative medicine residency, becoming a PA, or nurse practitioner.

[hbelkins]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

That sounds like a "university studies" degree or "general studies" degree.

You basically majored in nothing except going to school.

[Roadgeekteen]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

That sounds like a "university studies" degree or "general studies" degree.

You basically majored in nothing except going to school.

This is also known as the D1 athlete degree.

[Max Rockatansky]

Calling a college degree, any college degree, "truly useless" is overrated.

There are some alternative medicine degrees that are technically accredited, but push a lot of pseudoscience or outright false information about dangerous practices like bloodletting. I would say that is useless and anyone who wants to get into alternative medicine would be better off getting an MD/DO and getting an integrative medicine residency, becoming a PA, or nurse practitioner.

Someone clearly has their four humors out of balance.

[kkt]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

That sounds like a "university studies" degree or "general studies" degree.

You basically majored in nothing except going to school.

Lots of self-designed majors are just as hard as an established degree program.  The student has to convince several faculty members that what they want to study is worth while, not covered by existing programs, and will not embarass the school.

[DTComposer]

Calling a college degree, any college degree, "truly useless" is overrated.

There are some alternative medicine degrees that are technically accredited, but push a lot of pseudoscience or outright false information about dangerous practices like bloodletting. I would say that is useless and anyone who wants to get into alternative medicine would be better off getting an MD/DO and getting an integrative medicine residency, becoming a PA, or nurse practitioner.

Point taken - I would also imagine that there are other schools (cough)Trump University(cough) that would fall into this category.

[Rothman]

The purpose of the degree has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

Better reread your history before making this point again!

The purpose of degrees has always been to show how smart you are to employers.

That sounds like a "university studies" degree or "general studies" degree.

You basically majored in nothing except going to school.

Lots of self-designed majors are just as hard as an established degree program.  The student has to convince several faculty members that what they want to study is worth while, not covered by existing programs, and will not embarass the school.

See Evergreen State University...My sister went there with Macklemore...Their loose degree programs made her career path quite difficult.

[Scott5114]

Or nowadays the insane levels of (unforgivable) debt that is being incurred for truly useless degrees.  I have zero sympathy for those people.

Mike

Me neither.  Institutions that sell useless credentials should be held liable for fraud.

The purpose of a degree or credential is merely to certify that you took a prescribed series of courses on the subject. There has never been any intent or guarantee of it being "useful" for anything outside of the university. Universities award degrees to show that the person is qualified to conduct research on the subject at a university—the idea of a degree from a university being a ticket to employment in a certain field is a fairly recent idea.

Found the university shill.

Time to get the federal government OUT of the student loan biz AGAIN, re-privatizing it.  As it is now, it is fast becoming a real lingering and growing disaster from the late 'zeros' era.

Mike

Jumping from "degrees are completely useless" to "certain degrees are useless" and now "government should get out of student loans" tells me you aren't actually as informed on this issue as you think you are.

In the "____ is/are overrated" thread, no less, without ever actually stating what, if anything, is overrated.

It's like breaking through someone's bedroom window at 3am and yelling "SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD?"

Guitar

[Rothman]

Or nowadays the insane levels of (unforgivable) debt that is being incurred for truly useless degrees.  I have zero sympathy for those people.

Mike

Me neither.  Institutions that sell useless credentials should be held liable for fraud.

The purpose of a degree or credential is merely to certify that you took a prescribed series of courses on the subject. There has never been any intent or guarantee of it being "useful" for anything outside of the university. Universities award degrees to show that the person is qualified to conduct research on the subject at a university—the idea of a degree from a university being a ticket to employment in a certain field is a fairly recent idea.

Found the university shill.

Time to get the federal government OUT of the student loan biz AGAIN, re-privatizing it.  As it is now, it is fast becoming a real lingering and growing disaster from the late 'zeros' era.

Mike

Jumping from "degrees are completely useless" to "certain degrees are useless" and now "government should get out of student loans" tells me you aren't actually as informed on this issue as you think you are.

In the "____ is/are overrated" thread, no less, without ever actually stating what, if anything, is overrated.

It's like breaking through someone's bedroom window at 3am and yelling "SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD?"

Guitar

It's the "Guitar" that makes this post for me.

[Scott5114]

It's the "Guitar" that makes this post for me.

I assumed we were just putting "things you'd find on the stage at a rock concert" on their own line at the end of a post for some reason now.

[Rothman]

It's the "Guitar" that makes this post for me.

I assumed we were just putting "things you'd find on the stage at a rock concert" on their own line at the end of a post for some reason now.

Oh.

Heroin.

[Max Rockatansky]

It's the "Guitar" that makes this post for me.

I assumed we were just putting "things you'd find on the stage at a rock concert" on their own line at the end of a post for some reason now.

Oh.

Heroin.

I've been wondering what has been up with that. 

Phillips screwdriver

[formulanone]

It's the "Guitar" that makes this post for me.

I assumed we were just putting "things you'd find on the stage at a rock concert" on their own line at the end of a post for some reason now.

Oh.

Heroin.

I've been wondering what has been up with that. 

Phillips screwdriver

V=IR, let's rock this with the best crowd ever in {city name}!

Amp