I was an English major for a while. I've never really looked back on it, and while I'll freely admit, I don't have anything under my belt to show for it, I've always found that I need to trust my gut instead of a rule that a professor told me. I love Creative Writing classes because of the freedom in them, they are there to make you write and arm you with some tools that you can use if needed, but if writing classes are treated as anything more than that, I tend to ignore them. Just the way I am, though I've always felt the need to stand or fall on my own two feet (just a little headstrong that way, ask my girlfriend, lol).
The academia is interesting to explore some of the time, but the creative process can't be taught. It's something that's intensely personal to each writer I believe.