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[quote=Anonymous]When I was looking for colleges as a teenager, I wasn't thinking about jobs at all. I was thinking about the chance to sit in rooms with the brightest people I could find (both professors and students) and learn as much as I could about the stuff that interested me. I ended up at a "top" college, and that's what I got there. It hasn't made me more employable, but those four years have shaped who I am outside of work significantly. I didn't come from a "top college" background. My mom has a degree from a non-selective college that she only earned after flunking out of a state school, my dad went to night school in his 30s after working manual labor jobs during his 20s. I went to a very average public high school. I work a job where I am the only person with an academic background like that. My time in college is the aberration in the grand scheme of my life, but I'm really glad I made the choice I made. [/quote]
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