Is leaving university the right decision?

Question

IT education

Is leaving university the right decision?
During the session and on holidays, I worked as a front-end developer. Progressed.
But now the new semester begins and it will be difficult to combine.
What do you advise?
Can you give examples from your life.

Answer 1

Bite your elbows, but keep up with everything, in Russia life is unpredictable, FIG knows
where you need a diploma, but it’s better that you have it.
Eastern wisdom says; If you need a sword only once in your life,
then you will need to carry it with you every day.
So think whether it is worth laying straws or not, the second opportunity may not be provided. :)

Answer 2

Need to finish. You won’t be freelancing all the time + riveting sites from morning to evening. How do you know what you will need tomorrow? it’s better to endure and get the coveted crust. If you don't need it - good, but if you need it and won't - what will you do?

Answer 3

You decide, I would finish my studies. And I want to advise this: find out if it will be difficult to recover later, all of a sudden after 5 years you still want to get a higher education. It is rightly said that life in the country is unpredictable. And not only here, but everywhere. Look what @opium
writes - it’s hard to doubt that it was the right choice, on the other hand, I know a person who left MGIMO in the Soviet years, which led to the fact that he became homeless, ended up somewhere near Sakhalin. Then he found strength, recovered, finished his studies and now teaches mathematics somewhere in Thailand, I think.

Answer 4

1. Don't quit. finish your studies.
2. It will be difficult, but bullshit here and there. The result is sure to come.

Answer 5

If you are studying for a bachelor's degree, endure until the diploma.
I also work - both freelancing and in the office while studying, I rarely go to the university itself.
But if you are confident in your knowledge and that you are able to earn enough to live independently, and your parents won’t whine about dropping out of the university, then the university is not needed in principle. It's a waste of time.

Answer 6

If the bachelor (4 years) then in any way you need to finish. Moreover, study on IT and the budget. Not everyone is so lucky. And a diploma can come in handy at the most unexpected moment: what if in 2-3 years you will be invited to the USA, and then it turns out that you need a diploma of higher education?
My story:
In my 4th year, I worked full-time for 4 months, and quit before the first session.
After a couple of months, I got a job at another job (20 hours / week), where I worked for almost two years, until I graduated from the institute. In the last six months of work, I had a full-time + diploma and it was really hard and I wanted to quit everything (my specialty was only indirectly related to IT). Endured and finished. Which is what I advise you.
Studied at MAI for 5.5 years, graduated exactly a year ago.
In general, the ideal option during your studies is to try yourself on the Odesk and Elance exchanges. Unfortunately, I started doing this a month after graduating from the institute.
PS Perhaps you should pay attention that after leaving the university, problems with the army may begin.

Answer 7

I studied 4 courses, now I "study" the 5th course. Specialty "Computer systems and networks". Odessa university.
About knowledge. Well, the useful knowledge that I received is not so much. They could fit in 2 years, instead of 4.
Freelancing from the second year. To understand, from the first I live on my own money without any help from my parents.
Now I'm leaving of my own accord. Corruption, lack of training and formality drove me to the edge. I don't want to study like this anymore. I plan to learn the language and go to Europe to get an education.

Answer 8

I advise you to finish.

Answer 9

Studied for 8 years at the university of NSTU (the second university in terms of quality in Novosibirsk), did not finish.
Left to work.
Made a small career to CTO in a small company with a hundred servers.
I went freelancing, I live happily in Thailand, I work for odesk.com with a rate of $50 per hour

Answer 10

From my own experience: to unlearn the first 3 courses, until the profile ones begin. Then you can quit, because the profile will not be in demand.
A simple example: let's say you decide to read courses on bootstrap 3.0. While this will be agreed, while manuals will be written .... bootstrap 4.0 will be released. By the time they read this to you, bootstrap5.0 will be released. By the time the training ends, another version will be released. Instead of a bootstrap, you can substitute any product.
Personally, I have never needed a diploma for an interview. And I myself do not ask him at the interview. But the general development, the basis laid down by the first three courses (especially the tower), really helps. And for import customers, it’s generally purple on pieces of paper with Cyrillic.

Answer 11

Love needs to learn.
What's stopping you from moving on to part-time education?

Answer 12

Obviously you've seen enough of Jobs, Gates and others. But these are harmful examples, these are a few out of millions, and they didn’t really work directly in their products, they are just entrepreneurs.

Answer 13

Don't know. I myself study at MATI, but not IT, but one of the engineering areas. After a year of work on the profile, he was disappointed, left as a layout designer, satisfied (lyrical digression :)). In your situation, I recommend that you go to the dean's office, explain the situation and take a paper about "free attendance", I think that's what they call it. And then approach the teachers, explain the situation and ask for some task that will help you pass the subject painlessly at the end of the semester.

Answer 14

In my opinion, a university is not needed at all in order to give you knowledge there. You should be taught to receive this knowledge there ... no, not even like that - you should be taught to extract it!
In my opinion, this is what matters. Well, as many have already said above - the ability to spin and combine. When you need to be in a couple and at work at the same time, then you acquire the very skill that, alas, cannot be acquired by other methods.

Answer 15

Learn of course. You yourself do not feel sorry for the spent nerves and time for admission and study?