I know my perception is heavily influenced by the status quo of how higher education works now, and I'm fully open to expanding academia for those who want it, but I would literally rather pull my teeth out than have spent another 5 years in school. So much of it is either so fully in the realm of theoretical that it boils down to little more than a circlejerk among the handful of people who can even pretend to understand it or practical application of concepts that are thirty years out of date because of the divide between the real world and professors.