College is a wonderful place to build your foundation in whatever field you choose to work in.
But from a practical perspective, most of the experience is artificial.
The professors are paid to give attention to your work.
Your friends are paying to give attention to your work.
But then, when you go out into the real world, you discover...most people don't really care about your work that much.
It's not that people are mean or cruel. They're just busy. And they can't give their full attention to everything.
This is that life lesson that most colleges forget, and most of us have to learn through experience.
All the more reason to start building experience as early as possible. To start experimenting. To figure out what works in the real world and what doesn't.
Otherwise, entering the real world with expectations of what we experienced in college leaves many to consider possibly the worst alternative...
Going back for a different degree and doing it all over again.
