Failure on a single assignment at university will not get you fired. Your team will not blackball you as incompetent. (Well, they might be upset but the next course you will probably be with other people.)
There is time to learn that your habits need to be changed in order to be successful in the long-term.
There is more support for investigating things that you think are worth investigating, and there can be positive reinforcement that some people find meaningful (e.g., repsect for presenting at student conferences) instead of "just" a paycheck.
University certainly provides a way to establish your credibility and build a portfolio that can be broader than $dayjob gives you the opportunity to do.
At the university there is very easy access to people with a very broad skill set. No need to beg HR to allow you to hire an ML specialist... just go down the hall and talk to Professor X.
It's not perfect, and not everyone makes as much of it as they could, but there are big plusses to the university system.
>There is more support for investigating things that you think are worth investigating,
In my world there was always lack of time cuz other courses wanted their important^tm projects too, so instead of deep dive into fancy topics that was just pass and move on and learn it yourself
In hs i liked math, in higher edu institution i had no time for it
There is time to learn that your habits need to be changed in order to be successful in the long-term.
There is more support for investigating things that you think are worth investigating, and there can be positive reinforcement that some people find meaningful (e.g., repsect for presenting at student conferences) instead of "just" a paycheck.
University certainly provides a way to establish your credibility and build a portfolio that can be broader than $dayjob gives you the opportunity to do.
At the university there is very easy access to people with a very broad skill set. No need to beg HR to allow you to hire an ML specialist... just go down the hall and talk to Professor X.
It's not perfect, and not everyone makes as much of it as they could, but there are big plusses to the university system.