After my exams on Friday, i would have completed 7 sems at NUS. And i was thinking just now what i have learnt so far, which i will enumerate:
1) Probably all the engineering stuff i have learnt will not be put to use.
2) However, the engineering approach to analysing and tackling problems is an extremely powerful tool which can be employed everywhere. By this, i am talking about the Aristotlean approach to division, which bears some similarities. You will become more logical, and i don't mean this in the real hardcore sense of the logics learnt in philosophy.
3) That i must be prepared for lifelong learning.
4) That you must draw the line between a good decision and a bad outcome.

That is probably quite impressive but the more i think about it, the more i feel you don't need 7 sems to learn them.

Universities should have two versions of the same degree: one for people going to practise in that field and another for people not. The latter should be shorter of course.