computer college !

Is anyone in/went to college for a computer degree?

Please give us all insight about the process and where it got you and what you found to be the most essential knowledge while going for the degree?

I did computer science, it got me absolutely nowhere since all the programming/IT shops require 3+ years commercial experience in all the latest management buzzwords. Unless you do really well then you can get hired by a big company such as IBM where you will be trained on the job, which in otherwords means you get to be a codemonkey and learn to hate programming.