"The 22-year-old graduated last year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and studio art that cost more than a quarter-million dollars." ....how is this even possible?
I was one of the students quoted in the article (you can probably guess who by my name). I went to a school that ostensibly costs that much but very few people there didn't have some kind of financial aid. Based on the wording of the article I don't think the person he mentioned paid full price, either.
I don't regret going to a liberal arts school one bit, and it wasn't as if there were no jobs available to me when I graduated. To be honest, I'm surprised at how one-dimensional this article reads, because he makes it seem like there is no gray area in what makes a good education.
One of the main reasons that these bootcamps are successful is that the majority of the students have some kind of college education (he mentions 70% in the article but that includes the less impressive camps who will literally take anybody). Boot camp grads are competitive because they have skills (communication-wise) that come with diverse degrees. The fact that the author is dismissing those skills makes me think he really missed the point.
Homework swallows her nights and weekends—a big change from Dartmouth,
where after a few hours of class “you could just do whatever,” Feng says.
At MIT it was at least one all-nighter a week, not counting getting up in the middle of the night so shlep across campus and adjust a machine. I hear it's unchanged today.
What kind of life is Dartmouth preparing them for? Makes me glad I "rebelled" by choosing MIT.
Why wouldn't they need to go to a coding bootcamp if they don't have any relevant experience or haven't studied a related subject? They've all chosen to retrain to find jobs in new fields.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 32.6 ms ] threadThe fact that you might need vocational training when trying to get a job that's outside your area of study surprises people ?
I don't regret going to a liberal arts school one bit, and it wasn't as if there were no jobs available to me when I graduated. To be honest, I'm surprised at how one-dimensional this article reads, because he makes it seem like there is no gray area in what makes a good education.
One of the main reasons that these bootcamps are successful is that the majority of the students have some kind of college education (he mentions 70% in the article but that includes the less impressive camps who will literally take anybody). Boot camp grads are competitive because they have skills (communication-wise) that come with diverse degrees. The fact that the author is dismissing those skills makes me think he really missed the point.
What kind of life is Dartmouth preparing them for? Makes me glad I "rebelled" by choosing MIT.