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It's called experience.
I don't doubt that you won't learn all that "awesome" stuff from college. Companies don't generally train employees to do a job they were hired for. It's usually easier to simply hire someone who's already qualified for the job. How can someone be qualified for a job they weren't taught how to do in school? Well, how did the people teaching you, in school, learn to do all that? It sort of begs the question.
Have you ever heard of an "entry level position?" Well, be prepared for one when you graduate 'cause that's what you're likely to get. You learn on the job by doing your job. Market realities will force you to learn how to do new things and you will. When a new problem comes up and your employers want you to solve the problem, what are you going to tell them? That you can't solve their problem because they didn't teach you that in school? No, you're going to think about the problem, beyond what they taught you in school, and (hopefully) figure it out! This is experience. It works in D&D and it works in real life (bad analogy but I couldn't resist...).
You don't have to learn just from your job, you can also learn on your own, from books or whatnot. Obviously, Yakk is big on independent learning through books but that's just one way. Again, how did the authors of said books learn their material? This is also experience (learning from books or whatnot)--just, not on the job experience.
Slightly off topic but I kind of get confused when I read threads like this 'cause (it seems that) Americans don't make a distinction between college and university...
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