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LukeSkyvvalker posted...

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LukeSkyvvalker posted...

That's laughably subjective.

Uh, no it isn't. You are working towards something bigger when you go to college, are you not?

In addition to the fact that a lot of people can learn independent skills while doing it.

Yeah, it really is subjective. And in my case, no. I really wasn't going to college because I was working towards something bigger. I went because that's what everyone expected me to do - since everyone is told from infancy that if they don't go to college and get good grades then they will be a failure and a loser.

And I hated it. I won't go into why, but as it turns out, college isn't even the magic cure all that we were told anyway. And no matter what dumbasses may say, the system isn't even remotely efficient - you waste years of your life in school for painfully little return.

You don't "have to" go to college.

THIS. College is definitely a spring board to higher pay and opportunities, but if you don't go to the right school or get the right degree, you are stuck with tens upon thousands in debt.

Everybody likewise when I was young would say "just go right away after high school". "Start your generals". I'm sorry, but I'm not throwing away time and money unless I know there's something specific I wanna get out of it. You'd have to major in something anyway.

Trade schools are an alternative if you wanna build a certain skill set without an ass ton of debt. Honestly, it depends on what you want. But college isn't a cakewalk. If you go into that without a purpose, you're gonna burn out and waste a ton of money. But if you told me you wanted to be something like a doctor or physicist or something, if say go for it. But I certainly wouldn't recommend going "just because it's college"