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@michigan I really wish I knew before I spent all the $$$ getting this that in 20 years literally 0 employers would ever ask to see it, and only one even bothered to check with the university. In the future I'm telling my kids to just check the box that says you have a degree, it's literally the same thing.

In case you are wondering I've spent more time trying to unlearn stuff I learned in college than in using any of the information I learned at NMU.

I have no reason to believe that going to a more prestigious school like University of Michigan would have turned out any different.

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Also a former NMU student but I never finished my degree fully, I list it on my resume but even include that I didn't finish my degree fully and every job I've had has acted like I had the degree with no further questions asked. Like...they just do not actually care enough to look at the full 2 lines of text. It's insane the amount of trust people just have that everyone is playing by their expectations.