Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

I'm talking about things you learned in the actual class part of college, not drinking, girls, etc. In your career, what skills or other things you learned in college had a direct impact in your job?

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English (communications) classes helped a lot and I work in IT.

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How to write.
How to think.
How to learn.

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understanding what inductive and deductive logic are, and ways to apply them to problem solving, have been extraordinarily helpful. also, basic microeconomics.

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1st time:
how to build scenery
how to move scenery
how to design scenery - no impact
how to stage manage
how to design lights - no impact
how to build props

2nd time:
MS Office
JCL
COBOL
IMS - no impact
DB2
SQL
C - no impact
C++ no impact

What I didn't learn in school that has had an impact
SOX crap
Paper work

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Negotiation Skills.


fyc

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Negotiation, accounting, microeconomics, financial analysis.

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Time management and typography. Oh I learned about coke also...

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The difference between Husserl's and Levinas' respective phenomenologies, although I think it probably fell out of my brain a while ago

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How to play poker [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Lots of engineering stuff. A decent amount of which I don't use in my current engineering job (logic design), but will come in handy at some point.

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Probability/Statistics, Data/Error Analysis, Logic, Writing/Editing, Research Skills.

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Nothing, basically.

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I learned more outside of college than inside of the classroom while attending Penn State.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
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-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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Useful stuff.

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I've learned much more surfing the web than in classes during my four years in college. As far as a direct impact at a job... I'm pretty sure if I didn't attend school the past four years I would just about as capable

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Things i learned, but dont use anymore:
Analog/Digital Circuits
Logic Design
Electromagnetics
Laplace/Fourier Transforms

Things i learned that are atleast somewhat used:
C++ (OO concepts)
Algorithm design
Just being able to think critically and problem solve

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Prob/Stat, technical writing, Minitab, advanced Excel, SQL, relational databases has been HUGE in my career, also skills like how to present lots of data in a concise and meaningful manner.

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problem solving

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I'm in Tech Support, so this is big.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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pws to elaborate on number 3 tks

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- Associated Press style
- formal and symbolic logic
- clear, concise writing

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1)To use library and other resources to find accurate information.

2)To view things critically and question assumptions.

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Analytical reading and writing skills by far.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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pws to elaborate on number 3 tks

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one day in my tax accounting class our teacher said"today im gonna make sure everyone one of you doesn't die poor and maintains a wealthy lifestyle."
for the entire class he told us what to invest in with our first paychecks, what writeoffs and technicalities to do with filing taxes that will sure ourselves of a good return. told us how to save ourselves against the IRS with certain gifts and programs that we can take advantage of while we are young. how much to invest and how to invest to make sure we are millionaires by the time we are 40 if we start at age 25. Lots of lil tricks, pretty much have to read the tax code book (which is massive) to even catch a lot of these things, but no one really does.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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pws to elaborate on number 3 tks

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one day in my tax accounting class our teacher said"today im gonna make sure everyone one of you doesn't die poor and maintains a wealthy lifestyle."
for the entire class he told us what to invest in with our first paychecks, what writeoffs and technicalities to do with filing taxes that will sure ourselves of a good return. told us how to save ourselves against the IRS with certain gifts and programs that we can take advantage of while we are young. how much to invest and how to invest to make sure we are millionaires by the time we are 40 if we start at age 25. Lots of lil tricks, pretty much have to read the tax code book (which is massive) to even catch a lot of these things, but no one really does.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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pws to elaborate on number 3 tks

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one day in my tax accounting class our teacher said"today im gonna make sure everyone one of you doesn't die poor and maintains a wealthy lifestyle."
for the entire class he told us what to invest in with our first paychecks, what writeoffs and technicalities to do with filing taxes that will sure ourselves of a good return. told us how to save ourselves against the IRS with certain gifts and programs that we can take advantage of while we are young. how much to invest and how to invest to make sure we are millionaires by the time we are 40 if we start at age 25. Lots of lil tricks, pretty much have to read the tax code book (which is massive) to even catch a lot of these things, but no one really does.

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-how to screw the IRS out of money
-how to do shady accounting without being caught
-how to make sure i dont die poor
-how to tap a keg

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pws to elaborate on number 3 tks

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one day in my tax accounting class our teacher said"today im gonna make sure everyone one of you doesn't die poor and maintains a wealthy lifestyle."
for the entire class he told us what to invest in with our first paychecks, what writeoffs and technicalities to do with filing taxes that will sure ourselves of a good return. told us how to save ourselves against the IRS with certain gifts and programs that we can take advantage of while we are young. how much to invest and how to invest to make sure we are millionaires by the time we are 40 if we start at age 25. Lots of lil tricks, pretty much have to read the tax code book (which is massive) to even catch a lot of these things, but no one really does.

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pretty please

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I don't get a lot of these analytical reading / logical reasoning type things you guys are saying. Were you really incapable of that before college and if so were you incapable of learning to do that yourself?

Also, these lists are so short it makes me not regret for a second my decision to leave college before finishing. I didn't feel like it was useful at the time and apparently it wasn't going to get much more useful.

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1)To use library and other resources to find accurate information.

2)To view things critically and question assumptions.

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Here's an example of my point. You didn't do this before college? If not, I guess it is good you learned that in college, but I find it hard to believe.

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pretty much have to read the tax code book (which is massive) to even catch a lot of these things, but no one really does.

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any easy to read books you can recommend? Or online forums that are useful for this? I am 20, and would like to start understanding tax loop holes @ a young age.

TY for sharing what you have so far.

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I spent my college years skipping classes and just drank and went to & threw lots of parties.. now I am an event planner

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How to make phat beats.

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Metetron, it's all about picking a legitimate major if you actually want to learn new stuff other than the life lessons kinds of things you're complaining about.

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Come on PDPG, anyone can learn what you know with wikipedia.

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I don't get a lot of these analytical reading / logical reasoning type things you guys are saying. Were you really incapable of that before college and if so were you incapable of learning to do that yourself?

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Well i suppose i was able to problem solve and think critically out of high school, but college gave me to opportunity to apply these things to various engineering topics/problems. Some of which i use directly at work. Could i have learned these things on my own? Maybe, but i doubt it would have been as effective. Some professors/TAs are pretty useless, so learning the material on your own is what you end up doing. But contrary to what i think alot of students say (usually as an excuse), a decent percentage of professors can actually teach pretty well.. making learning much more efficient then if i had tried on my own.

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Also, these lists are so short it makes me not regret for a second my decision to leave college before finishing. I didn't feel like it was useful at the time and apparently it wasn't going to get much more useful.

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College definately isnt for everyone, and in general seems to be overrated. I think this is especially true for most people who get liberal arts degrees. But also applies to people who already know exactly what they want to do in life, and what they need to do to get there.

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I don't get a lot of these analytical reading / logical reasoning type things you guys are saying. Were you really incapable of that before college and if so were you incapable of learning to do that yourself?

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No but a lot of the growth just happened to coincide with my college years. I was doing lots of stuff during that period as well aside from school that contributed to my personal growth. University was a good kick in the ass for picking up on new ideas and developing different analytical frameworks depending on the problems one would run into.

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1)To use library and other resources to find accurate information.

2)To view things critically and question assumptions.

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Here's an example of my point. You didn't do this before college? If not, I guess it is good you learned that in college, but I find it hard to believe.

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If you had to do that in high school, we probably wouldn't have been in the same classes.

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I learned plenty about physics, economics, and psychology. I also learned how/how much to drink plus lots about seattle in general.