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by landryraccoon 2939 days ago
> Most students do not go to class to learn, but rather to receive accreditation, concerned only with how future employers will view their GPA or classes taken

I’m super skeptical of this. In any engineering or science field the only thing a diploma gets you is an interview. I don’t consider myself an especially adept interviewer but I think I can tell in the first five minutes if a new grad didn’t learn anything in school.