while i don't think much longer is needed, i don't think i learned
    much that didn't help me one way or another. stuff that i chose i
    wanted to learn anyway, and most of what i didn't choose (mostly
    general background stuff) came pretty handy once in a while. (at least
    the feeling that i knew all that stuff once, and that, if i need it, i
    can revive it pretty quick... :)

Gee, where did you go to school?  I've got books on my shelf from second
and third year math, physics and EE, where I don't even remember exactlty
what the symbols mean anymore.  (BSEE, and I'm in software.)  Now the
software stuff wasn't that bad - only studied four languages that I never
(well, seldom) used after graduation.  Perhaps ironically, one of the most
fundamentally useful classes from school in terms of understanding things
was the compiler class I ended up flunking - never wrote the toy compiler
they wanted as a final project, but some of that parsing logic is
fundamental across a wide range of applications.

BillW