>>11369347any degree has the capacity to be a meme if you don't take the necessary steps to be competent / get experience.
For career oriented degrees like finance, engineering, (popular tracks of) CS, etc., you'll want to go for internships, take a balance of theory and application classes, get some personal projects on github, etc..
For research / higher education focused degrees like math, physics, (TCS and other research disciplines of) CS, you'll want to go for REU's, research with professors at your uni, take a balance of theory classes with some harder application classes (think serious modelling classes, OS design, etc etc), directed reading + independent study programs, etc.
There's literally no gain without entering knowing that there's a risk you may not gain anything if you don't seek it out. In that respect, everything is a meme
