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Surprise! College is supposed to teach you to be proficient at what most of their students end up doing: working at the corporate level. Whether or not you have the desire to go and do your own thing is really up to you.

At one time I was extremely dissatisfied with my college's cookie cutter curriculum. But I realized that this setup is built to get you in the job market. It was up to me to do the extras.

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I think it really depends on what college and what program in that college you go to.

The vast majority of my professors were genuinely interested in developing their students as independent thinkers capable of much more than corporate drudgery.

Perhaps the business-end of the university is focused on getting you into the job market (since that's how many people want to evaluate their college experience and investment and hey, somebody's gotta pay the bills). But if you are in a more academically inclined program, I think you'll find that the pursuit of knowledge and a joy of learning is what matters most.

True. In my experience, the professors really worked hard for the development who had the desire to go beyond the required material. It's just that the average student will never think about going beyond what is required for the class.

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