Interesting. My grandfather and five of his college friends bought into some oil rights in Western ND back in the 1950's. When he passed away, he willed the rights to his six kids (My Dad was one of them).
Nobody thought they were worth anything, but continued to hold on to them for whatever reason. Imagine the families surprise when several oil companies started calling to get permission to start taking field samples on the plots they owned.
They've continued to make good money on the plots and are now just waiting to see if the "big payout" ever comes, where an oil company would want to buy the family out of its ownership.
I mean that as a legitimate comment! The guy who owns the farm now who is getting fucked over by the oil companies having mineral rights, was actually fucked over by his grandfather when he owned the land, selling off the rights.
Half of what you learn in your first year is obsolete by the time you finish? Absolutely patent nonsense.
What do you do in the first year of a CS degree? Probably discrete maths, logic, calculus, certainly a couple of languages like Java, C, ML, computer architecture, some basic software engineering.
Explain to me how any of that could be obsolete within ten years, let alone four. And then explain to me where you got the "half" figure from.
The maths hasn't changed in thirty years, and that's when you include the advanced stuff like category theory. The languages are all twenty years old plus. Architecture is all the same apart from some new buses and multicore.
Just maybe some of the software engineering principles won't be fashionable when you come to graduate, but you're on a CS degree aren't you? Software engineering is a means to an end, not the topic of your study.
