At 02:08 AM 9/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Shannon B. Roddy wrote: > > As far as the degree doing all that you claim, I have been pretty > > disillusioned now that I am attending LSU for the past few years. I > > cannot believe what they are calling an education now. It is an > > absolute joke (from what I have seen so far anyway). > >I agree with this. You can stumble through for 4 years, goto class >occasionally, pass a few tests and get a degree, not learning a damn thing >along the way. You can also memorize the MCSE study guides and get your >paper MCSE. In either case you're doing yourself a grave injustice... >when you really need that knowledge you're supposed to have, it won't be >there.
Damn it Ray, quit stealing my thoughts! Here is my take on this: A lot of people harp on LSU, Southeastern, USL, etc., but ultimately you get out what you put in. I graduated from LSU with a degree in computer science with a minor in business administration, and I think that working toward that degree was one of the best investments of my time I've ever made. I left LSU with confidence that I understood my fundamentals. Sure, I didn't grok everything, but that's okay. I still have a solid foundation. Shannon, just about anyone can earn that piece of paper after several years, but the ones that actually studied and were active learners will walk away with knowledge that simply puts them in the front of the pack. P.S. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule. Like I said earlier, there are people without degrees that are leaders of the pack as well. However, on average the person with the degree just has a better grasp of how things work. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.
