Exactly...for me, about 80% of my engineering curriculum was useful stuff, and I could take the meaningful humanities courses without getting herded into 'contemporary lesbian women's issues in the empowerment remodernization movement of contemporary post-Soviet central Asian contemporary affairs."
(You don't know how fun it was to write that)
Your education begins when you have finished school.
There is certainly no substitute for hands-on and immersing yourself in life.
Good luck, future President AVNevis.