[kabdib]

I never crammed for a test. Aside from courses that I liked (like History and English) I never took anything outside of CS. I dropped out after ~ 3 years to write software for a living.

This worked okay in 1982. I don't know if it would work now. I /do/ know that when I interview someone I never really look at their degree or coursework except as a starting point to figure out if they're a good hire.

There are two other people within fifty feet of me who have a similar educational story. We work at a very large company and you've probably used our products.

As far as I'm concerned, college is what you make of it. If you're going there purely for a degree and you don't learn anything useful, that's going to be a problem. If you go and learn something and can demonstrate that, you're good. I don't care if you went to Podunk or MIT, I don't care if you have the piece of paper or not; if you have the chops, you've won.