Do I need to go to university?
I went to university. I did not receive any job training at university. It is not design for job training and I did not expect to receive job training.<p>I am not a job. I am not a career.<p>I learned two important things at university that I doubt I could have picked up otherwise.<p>1. I learned how broad knowledge is. I learned about things I did not even know I did not know about. Some of these things I learned in classrooms. Most I learned outside of classrooms, either through interaction with my peers or by accident while researching something unrelated in the library. Sometimes by hacking on the school computers. In high school I learned that being smart is bad. In university I learned there are people who value thinking.<p>2. I learned how to organize my time to complete tasks I had no personal interest in, how to force myself to work despite my dislike of team mates or organizers, and to finish by deadlines. I only wish I had learned these things before my 6th and 7th years in university, but alas.<p>You don&#x27;t need to go to university. We will always need garbage collectors and street sweepers, and remember, anyone can write bad software.  Vendors continue to try to make it easier to do so.