Looking Back On It...Man College was Bullshyt

[desjardins]

College is about the experience, being exposed to different types of people, the connections you can make, and credentialing.
Beyond that it's no guarantees. My college was only $12k a year after grants and scholarships. I graduated 10 yrs ago and I just got under 20k in my loans on the low ass payment schedule they have me on.
I can't imagine the debt people who pay $30k+ a year going be looking at.



Would I do it again (at that price) ? Absolutely . I met all kind of people, and most importantly to me....all kinds of BLACK people. Black people who had mansions and maids back home, dudes who fathers bought them $300k cribs to live in for 4 yrs, brothers from NY, the south, the west coast, africa and europe. And I didn't even go to a good school, I imagine the connections you make at an ivy league are even more eye opening (assuming you poor-middle class from a normal black hood)

 

[EndDomination]

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.

You don't end up antisocial in school unless you're double majoring in like Biomedical Engineering and Astrophysics or something.
If you can't find a social life - school life balance, you're not ready to do STEM in the real world.
And Communications isn't a ticket to poverty either, besides grad school, there are hundreds of thousands of internships and jobs (especially in government) that you can get once you graduate. While STEM is certainly important, its not the only route if you plan on really putting in work.

 

[Astroslik]

nikkas talking STEM this and STEM that, at the end of the day you're still WORKING for someone and you're as disposable as anyone else

that automation and outsourcing jobs are gonna wake a lot of nikkas up

STEM is a good way to build a foundation and stack bread enough so you can become an entrepreneur or business owner, but you shouldn't be aspiring to do that shyt forever

 

[Wild self]

You don't end up antisocial in school unless you're double majoring in like Biomedical Engineering and Astrophysics or something.
If you can't find a social life - school life balance, you're not ready to do STEM in the real world.
And Communications isn't a ticket to poverty either, besides grad school, there are hundreds of thousands of internships and jobs (especially in government) that you can get once you graduate. While STEM is certainly important, its not the only route if you plan on really putting in work.

That's what this thread about: majoring in them STEM majors like Biomedical Engineering just to live above poverty. People advocating that just not to be on welfare

 

[Rocket Scientist]

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.

Street knowledge as in communication,networking,knowing in and outs of business world etc.There are a lot of cats in high position who don't have degrees making money college graduates haven't seen.I see your point but once again how often do you USE advanced math on a daily basis.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

nikkas talking STEM this and STEM that, at the end of the day you're still WORKING for someone and you're as disposable as anyone else

Bottom line alot of folks want to ignore.

 

[the cac mamba]

College has literally been the 5 most boring, useless, and pointless years of my life. A two year electrician apprenticeship would have put me in a better financial position, given me more employment opportunities, and actually taught me a useful skill.

My advice to anyone considering college- unless you know precisely what you're going to be doing there and you know that it will be worth it- skip college.

damn breh all else aside it shouldnt have been the most boring

whered you go some fukkin mormon school

 

[Wild self]

nikkas talking STEM this and STEM that, at the end of the day you're still WORKING for someone and you're as disposable as anyone else

that automation and outsourcing jobs are gonna wake a lot of nikkas up

STEM is a good way to build a foundation and stack bread enough so you can become an entrepreneur or business owner, but you shouldn't be aspiring to do that shyt forever

That shyt gonna make these dudes mad when their job out outsourced by a damnmachine.

Basic income checks for everyone will be

 

[David_TheMan]

college is a scam.
Government subsidization has raised prices of education to ridiculous levels and that is why you have so many in debt.
The cost simply does not meet the benefit of going.
Better off getting a fukking trade and working after high school, you have a fixed marketable skill.

Education bubble is already getting ready to burst.

 

[jwonder]

Depends on what degree and where you studied.

At least 1/2 of all degrees are worthless.

This right. I'm in Finance and stay eatin.

 

[jwonder]

Go to Phoenix online and Saint Leo University and expect to be making 100k fresh out of college breh.

Glad I went there. FSU was like what OP talked about. So many students in one class hard to pay attention. I actually went to the Ground campus of UOP. shyt worked out great.

 

[MarloStanTrill]

Go to Phoenix online and Saint Leo University and expect to be making 100k fresh out of college breh.

go to state university and expect any different brehs




miss the whole point BREHS

 

[jwonder]

Lets not also forget that Bill Gates (and Donald Trump to boot) had rich parents.

In their case it's about being white and being able to pull off good cons. Gates didnt' create DOS he bought it and flipped it Only a geeky white dude in step in a cac corporation and get people to jump on it and buy. He also pretty much stole Windows. I wouldn't say he is super smart. Just good at deceiving.

 

[yyy]

I feel like threads like this are made like clockwork every 3 or 4 weeks. College is just like everything else, you get what you put in. If you go to class, work hard and get good grades there is literally no limit to what you can accomplish. After all the vilifying of college, education is still the single best way for someone to raise themselves out of poverty (note I didn't say get rich).

I'll be the first to admit that a college degree isn't what use to be. 30 plus years ago, the mere fact that you had a college degree was enough to live comfortably in the middle class. Nowadays, though, some degrees are not very profitable. That's not to say that you can't major in them, but that is to say that if you do major in them you shouldn't be surprised when you can't get a job. There are countless articles regarding the most profitable majors, every college campus has a career center and you can talk to your parents and your parents friends regarding potentially profitable jobs/careers and majors. Needless to say that if going to college has been a significant detriment to your life, responsibility for the problem lies with you rather than the entire system of higher education.

Going forward the best advice that I can give you is to take responsibility for your life. Stop externalizing responsibility for your current situation. Put your head down, work hard, take risks, learn from your mistakes and I guarantee good things will happen (note I didn't say only good things will happen. It's important to pick yourself when you stumble). The mere fact that you are smart enough to discern some of the flaws with our higher education system tells me that you are smart enough to be successful.

And one more thing, if you have friends that have a penchant for complaining and externalizing responsibility for their current situations, get rid of them. Having no friends, is much better than having friends who are doing nothing with their lives. Like a contagious pathological disease there negativity and lack of agency will inevitably destroy any drive or initiative that you try to muster.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

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.

This is pretty much what I plan on doing. If I end up working in some job that I hate I know I'll end up committing suicide.