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by dylan604 654 days ago
The whole period of time forcing the idea that everyone must go to college has come home to roost. At the same time trade schools were panned while also filled with scam schools. Some people just do not need/want the full rounded education nor the expense of it all.
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The worthless college degrees are the "gee, math is hard" ones.

At Caltech, you could get a soft degree, but you still had to pass 3 years of math, 2 years of physics, and 1 year of chemistry. There weren't any "weeder" versions of them, either.

P.S. I could work the quantum mechanics problems, but was uncomfortable because I didn't understand QM. Years later I learned that nobody understands QM, they just know the math works :-)