Our son just graduated from a small private engineering college. A true geek school. I think he only had two fluff classes, fine arts and psychology. In the psych class, he and a buddy spent the entire time playing solitaire using two differing game strategies to see who won the most games. Hundreds of games later, their win loss ratio was almost identical and they both got A’s.
Well, on at least with the statistical bookkeeping used to reach the thesis. I would have to say that their education was actually well played.