On 6/26/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> > A 4 year college degree is probably worth 2 or 3 years worth of "real"
> > experience (of the sort that it is very hard to get when you're 18.)
>
> That is probably true in some fields, but in my experience (IME?) the
> reverse can also be true. Hard mathematical/statistical/theoretical
> stuff is difficult to get in a practical environment, just as the
> reverse (practical expericence) is hard to get at any sort of school.
>

Very true. Quite some R&D engineering work does require some good
theoretical backgroud. That is why some company actually like to
take in people with high qualifications but without practical experience.
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