Thank u. One of my kids is getting ready to apply for college. This is great information. We're focusing on just that, things that others do because it's not hard and it's usually means the math and science. She's a junior now and taking calculus and physics. Repped
Looking Back On It...Man College was Bullshyt
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Nigerianwonder
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Well you went for the wrong reasons. Don't advise people not to go. You are looking for immediate gratification but a degree is something you have to think about long term.
Whether you go to college or not most people will end up working a job they don't really like. And the only thing worse than working a job you don't like is working a job you don't like and not being paid a decent salary. If you want to get a degree just to say you have a degree then you should get it in something that pays. You can always pursue your passion on the side and it will be much easier to do with money in your pocket.
Some gonna have a bunch of kids who are antisocial that major in STEM, sacrificing their social life and humanity, or have their time of their life in communications degree and be broke afterwards.
The college bubble gonna burst and it gonna look ugly. Spending 40 years of your life on a major/career that you hate will cause people to do
shyt like clapping people.
I'm saying his overall college experience likely would have been better at an HBCU (if he's black).
GetInTheTruck
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if you not in a STEM field it's a waste of time.
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
If it's a free or affordable college is worth it for the experience of being independent , meeting people of different cultures/states/countries and of course for the hoes 
Boy I had one semester where I just said fukk class , smoked weed and fukked on campus all day caught like 3 STIs
Boy I had one semester where I just said fukk class , smoked weed and fukked on campus all day caught like 3 STIs
Some gonna have a bunch of kids who are antisocial that major in STEM, sacrificing their social life and humanity, or have their time of their life in communications degree and be broke afterwards.
The college bubble gonna burst and it gonna look ugly. Spending 40 years of your life on a major/career that you hate will cause people to do
I socialized, don't get me wrong, but I was like a monk with studying and I always networked to get internships and involved with projects that my professors would run just for experience.
A whole bunch of psych majors I knew ended up working at:
Starbucks
Pretzel Factory
Red Lobster
Applebee's
Macy's
30-45K in the hole and going back for more (Grad School)
The RNs/NPs/MDs however are caking heavy after changing adult diapers and other dues and now travel all over the world on a whim...
STEM wins....
Jobs are played out
STEM already has the petroleum industry failing like mad and automation is going to kill off many skilled jobs in the near future.
It's being a damn entrepreneur or death. We got to get off that job hustle and control your own life.
DeadlyDeadlyBees
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Even STEM isn't guaranteed these days. I had people that graduated with me that didn't try to get internships beforehand or do any networking and are still having a tough time getting that first job. May be different in other parts of the country though.
There's no such thing as an unemployed 4.0
And if you majored in (Any) Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Chemistry or Nursing and had a good GPA, it shouldn't have been difficult for you to have had a paid internship at least 2 of your summers in colleges, and to have gotten at least an entry level job in a career of your choice within a few months of graduation.
Really, I don't know anyone who had a good GPA who wasn't employed with a few months of graduation.
That includes East Asian Studies majors, Women and Gender Studies majors, African Studies, Political Science, Communications, Spanish, Sociology, etc.
And if you majored in (Any) Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Chemistry or Nursing and had a good GPA, it shouldn't have been difficult for you to have had a paid internship at least 2 of your summers in colleges, and to have gotten at least an entry level job in a career of your choice within a few months of graduation.
Really, I don't know anyone who had a good GPA who wasn't employed with a few months of graduation.
That includes East Asian Studies majors, Women and Gender Studies majors, African Studies, Political Science, Communications, Spanish, Sociology, etc.
Jobs are played out
STEM already has the petroleum industry failing like mad and automation is going to kill off many skilled jobs in the near future.
It's being a damn entrepreneur or death. We got to get off that job hustle and control your own life.
I get it and I just use what I earn from my job as free capital to invest in my own business really. The system uses you and you use the system....
Have you ever been in a house, my nikka?
You know it was built? Trigonometry.
Calculus built your cell phone, laptop, desktop, your internet connection.
shyt, the lights in your house and the heat in your house are Physics in Chem.
If street knowledge taught you more than school, you were in the wrong major and classes.
I dont wanna see you around here no more fam
Most people who demand you to be a damn genius to get a living wage, don't believe in a good standard of living for all. Better off doing what you love, that isnt over saturated, and learn how to sell it to people.
To be a damn bio chemistry major and make less than a garbage man out of 4+ years of traumatizing schooling just screams glutton for punishment.