> Graduating with a technical degree is like heading out into the real world armed with an assault rifle instead of a dull knife. Don't miss that opportunity because of some fuzzy romanticized view of liberal arts broadening your horizons -- that's a great way to end up wanting to kill yourself when you hit 30 and you realize you still haven't done anything with your life.
The problem with this entire line of thinking is that sure having an assault rifle is great but it doesn't do much good if you don't have any context to know where to point it.
Think of a technical skill or degree as the lens through which you focus a broader education.
The broader education allows you do apply technical solutions to non-technical problems and may even help you come up with that "big idea".
Look at PG, he seems to be doing pretty well on both accounts (undergrad liberal arts degree, grad technical degree).
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> Graduating with a technical degree is like heading out into the real world armed with an assault rifle instead of a dull knife. Don't miss that opportunity because of some fuzzy romanticized view of liberal arts broadening your horizons -- that's a great way to end up wanting to kill yourself when you hit 30 and you realize you still haven't done anything with your life.
The problem with this entire line of thinking is that sure having an assault rifle is great but it doesn't do much good if you don't have any context to know where to point it.
Think of a technical skill or degree as the lens through which you focus a broader education.
The broader education allows you do apply technical solutions to non-technical problems and may even help you come up with that "big idea".
Look at PG, he seems to be doing pretty well on both accounts (undergrad liberal arts degree, grad technical degree).