Word you go to UNL or UNO? I'm gonna be completing my Masters @ UNO
No scholly doe
UNO all day breh
fukk all that out of the city shyt. 
It's always cheaper to stay at home with mama 
Are you in college because you want to be in college?
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UNO all day breh
fukk all that out of the city shyt. It's always cheaper to stay at home with mama 
I'm going to college because I want to and because, what I originally majored in, I feel like the work doesn't really hold any tangible value. I want to do something with my life (engineering) where I feel like I'm contributing something of value to society.
Not easy but not impossible breh. Believe in yourself
Honestly, one thing I learned about school/college is that most people sell themselves short because they get discouraged about the work involved or they don't know how to effectively study and do the work required. If you're willing to view it as "alright, I'm here on earth 90+ years if I'm lucky, what the hell is only 4 years of that?" and use that as a rational of the few years of your life you lose to studying in hopes of a bigger reward, its easier to dedicate yourself to not having weekends for example in lieu of studying. Hard work trumps intelligence in most cases unless you're deficient in intelligence to a debilitating degree. I say this as someone who views himself as maybe a little bit above average intelligence, if not average, but currently rocking straight A's in courses for an electrical engineering degree.
On that note, if you're going to college for something like art history, don't waste your time and money (or your parent's money). The landscape of the job market and the value of college has changed. Sky rocketing tuition costs, unemployment, and companies finding more ways to squeeze more juice out of their oranges (
@ this analogy) means that competition in the job market is harder these days and its kind of stupid at this point to go to school "for the college experience and nothing else" and basically throw your money away in exchange for the burden of a lot of debt. You have to view yourself as a marketable product and use college as a means for that. Its fine to take the liberal arts for a minor but, unless you plan to become a professor of Womyns studies or whatever, you're selling yourself short just going to college for that or for the parties.
Go get a MDeasier said than done
Not easy but not impossible breh. Believe in yourself
Honestly, one thing I learned about school/college is that most people sell themselves short because they get discouraged about the work involved or they don't know how to effectively study and do the work required. If you're willing to view it as "alright, I'm here on earth 90+ years if I'm lucky, what the hell is only 4 years of that?" and use that as a rational of the few years of your life you lose to studying in hopes of a bigger reward, its easier to dedicate yourself to not having weekends for example in lieu of studying. Hard work trumps intelligence in most cases unless you're deficient in intelligence to a debilitating degree. I say this as someone who views himself as maybe a little bit above average intelligence, if not average, but currently rocking straight A's in courses for an electrical engineering degree.
On that note, if you're going to college for something like art history, don't waste your time and money (or your parent's money). The landscape of the job market and the value of college has changed. Sky rocketing tuition costs, unemployment, and companies finding more ways to squeeze more juice out of their oranges (
@ this analogy) means that competition in the job market is harder these days and its kind of stupid at this point to go to school "for the college experience and nothing else" and basically throw your money away in exchange for the burden of a lot of debt. You have to view yourself as a marketable product and use college as a means for that. Its fine to take the liberal arts for a minor but, unless you plan to become a professor of Womyns studies or whatever, you're selling yourself short just going to college for that or for the parties.
I Lord Justice
All Star
The chances are much higher that you will be employed if you have a degree versus someone who doesn't. The days are over where you can walk into a place off the street and get a good job and work for 30 years without a degree. My boy was with HR for a real estate firm. He was tasked with going around the country and firing all the people who didn't have their degree (they got a severance though). Once he finished, they gave him his papers to leave since he didn't have a degree himself.
shyt...
Could you explain our situation more in-depth?
I think I'm like you. I don't really know what I want to do but ye I'm in college.
Nah actually I want to produce music, like make beats but I'm too embarrassed to tell my father. I'm just doing this college thing as a backup.
At least you know what you want breh.
I guess half the challenge is taking the leap and getting your name out there.
Basically I didn't know what I wanted to do so I extended my life without pressure of decisions for more years, get financial aid and am a good student so it's not like I was hurting myself, only I was hurting myself cause I see these people studying solid things they wanna persue careers in and even if they aren't happy at least they got that under their belt.
In all reality in order to make it in a non-office non-boring business (as opposed to say the movie business, sports business, etc) atmosphere it's all about who you know and if you can impress and get on people's good sides than any proper good grades or what you study.
If a nikka is looking to make money(which they won't see any considerable amount of for at least 12 years), there are a hell of a lot of better, more realistic alternatives than coercing them into something as mentally taxing and strenuous as medicine, breh.
cleanface coney
Superstar
i had to fall back from going full time
i realize i cant just put my head in a book for 4 years straight
thats a fantasy imo
i be needing cash. its nikkas out here getting rich real talk
why put all my chips in college when it aint guaranteed
i pay cash for my classes now fukk dat financial aid shyt
n i take 1 or 2 a semester
but this the wrong place to question college
you know damn well thats all these lame nikkas to fall back on on this website
they aint got no real life experiences
thats why they talk like been researching for a college paper or some shyt lol
alotta people go to colllege because they pressured to go
me im tryna get money and look at college like any other side hustle
im not gon let it make or break me rt
i realize i cant just put my head in a book for 4 years straight
thats a fantasy imo
i be needing cash. its nikkas out here getting rich real talk
why put all my chips in college when it aint guaranteed
i pay cash for my classes now fukk dat financial aid shyt
n i take 1 or 2 a semester
but this the wrong place to question college
you know damn well thats all these lame nikkas to fall back on on this website
they aint got no real life experiences
thats why they talk like been researching for a college paper or some shyt lol
alotta people go to colllege because they pressured to go
me im tryna get money and look at college like any other side hustle
im not gon let it make or break me rt
rapdonttweet
Pro
I met 80% of my friends at college. Even if it didn't net me a job, it was worth it for that alone.
Oh look, another "i'm unsecure over people who go to college" thread.
Roberto Dinero
Dropped from #TnT
College is cool for anyone that wants to go and learn something but it used to piss me off how some of my teachers attitudes were when I said I wasn't going.
One teacher was like, what u gonna do in ur life then? Ur gonna be a poor garbage man if u don't go to college. I was like
get the f*ck outta here.
Like said before, college is not for everyone. Don't let people pressure u into going if u don't wanna go. My parents were cool about it compared to other people's parents. They said, u don't wanna go to college? Fine, then get a job.
If ur parents are pressuring u to do it my response would be, if u insist and ur gonna pay for it, then I'll go. Otherwise, leave me the f*ck alone.
One teacher was like, what u gonna do in ur life then? Ur gonna be a poor garbage man if u don't go to college. I was like
get the f*ck outta here.Like said before, college is not for everyone. Don't let people pressure u into going if u don't wanna go. My parents were cool about it compared to other people's parents. They said, u don't wanna go to college? Fine, then get a job.
If ur parents are pressuring u to do it my response would be, if u insist and ur gonna pay for it, then I'll go. Otherwise, leave me the f*ck alone.
college was/is my opportunity to find out who I am and mature at the same time. when I was younger, it was all about making a dollar and spending it on dumb shyt ( clothes, sneakers, going out, food). At the time I was runnign wild in the streets doing "stuff" so I didnt have a care in the world until I started to see everyone around me fall. This made me think about the choices I was making and eventually lead me on a different path. Actually, I wish I woild of known about the college I went to a long time ago ( I would likely be in a better position, but I cant complain) but for what it's worth, college has made me a stronger person mentally, emotionally, etc. At the end of the day, college has taught me more than any book could convey to me, it taught me to appreciate everything you work for. Additionally, it taught me the value of a dollar, how to manage with less, appreciate what my parents done for me in my life and other vital life lessons. In the streets I didnt get the same type of "experience" however I learned a lot about life and the "everyday struggle."