Looking Back On It...Man College was Bullshyt

[GoGetMyDamnBelt_]

Of all the stupid things these schools make kids learn, it's math you single out

I have learned a shyt ton in college. For most of these middle class cacs it's a place to dump their kids for 4 years while they party and descend to debauchery. For me it was a place to get skills and build a network.

I majored in computer science and have already made more money doing internships than I paid for college.

It's not the hand that you're dealt, it is how you play your cards boy.

Nice, I'm doing Computer & Network Security. I graduate in December

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

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.

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

nikka shut up, with ya broke ass.

 

[NinoBrown]

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

Not everyone has the drive to be a business person and may like the stability of benefits and a steady, reliable income stream. Business owners may not work for a company, but they need a stable client base to stay afloat. Very tough in this economy.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Not to be rude, but why are ya Nikkas limiting college to just post graduation success, as the ONLY barometer to success. I understand rushing to get a job, but you guys are looking through a short term window. What about the other benefits of college/ University?

1) Studying Abroad
2) Joining clubs and organizations my Ex: NAACP, black student union ( Haraya), NABA, Omicron Delta Epsilon.
3) Enjoying your school athletics
4) Meeting new cultures and people
5) Finding your identity.
6) Doing research.
7) Having school pride ( Let's get it Red Storm)
8) Seminars, to grow and learn from. I went to a seminar on black wealth, and Black fatherhood ( I'm not a father yet).

9) Plus Going to a college graduation!!!

There's more to college then just an after graduation paycheck. Again maybe My advice seems different because my student loan debt is not the worse in comparison to most. But they're other benefits, that gets unfairly pushed to the side.

People who are on the fence about college, just monitor more marketable majors and go for it. These anti-college statements are just

 

[Richard Wright]

Nice, I'm doing Computer & Network Security. I graduate in December

I would rep you if it was pure cs though

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

,ditto,it didn't teach me shyt,i learned more when my life imploded and i just went full monk/5150 status..school is a trap,it keeps you in a box and most aren't een consciously aware of it

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

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)

This^^^ agreed 100 percent. People really limit the college experience to after graduation salary. It's important and all, but people really do forget about the other things in college.

 

[Geek Nasty]

College if valuable if you have a game plan. You can't just get a degree anymore then go out and get white collar job anymore. That was the shtick white folks have been running for decades, but too many people are in on it now. You need a target career in mind and to be working on a degree to get you there.

But, college is about teaching you to learn, study and prepare. It's not a trade school where you only learn what you need for a job. It's also about critical thinking and new ideas. That kid who turns into a smoked out hippy probably grew up around a bunch of upper class republican churchgoers and now he's experimenting. Someone might have grown up with daddy feeding them racist, conservative bullshyt they get to college and nwo they'r e hanging with brothers and protesting police brutality.

The bad side of college is the marketing end where they're selling you the Animal House life to get you there to chase ass and rake up debt until you fnally drop out. You've got to be responsible enough to keep that shyt in check though. I wasn't my first go round, I was when I went back to finish my degree.

 

[joeychizzle]

The price of education has and always will be high.
The price of ignorance is even higher, however.

 

[EndDomination]

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

I wouldn't say that. They're making $80k if they know what they're doing.

 

[EndDomination]

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.

Pretty often, I'm an Econ major and do analyses and scenarios all the time.
Architects, Bankers, Engineers, Mathematicians, Computer Programmers, Statisticians, and about 100 other professions use advanced math on a daily basis.

 

[Killer Instinct]

If I never had the desire to go into medicine, I likley would have never set foot on a college campus.
Probably would have went Air Force and did my 20+ Maybe got into real estate on the side.
Would have been 39 and retired.
College definitely isn't for everybody.
It's wild to see how many of us went after high school in '11 because it was expected and yet only 20% (maybe) of us even graduated.
Two of my good friends would have definitely been better off going military or taking up a trade.
Majored in bs like psychology and music and didn't even make it to junior year.
Now they're working at KFC or pulling manual labor jobs like tree cutting.
One even has a record due to drugs. And all with Sally Mae standing outside the door with her palm out.

 

[rapbeats]

I did stem so I'm eating

did you watch the video? quite a few of them had stem degrees as well. still we see where they are. so miss us with that stem is where its at talk. its a racket and a rigg up. do you have a better chance getting a degree? yes. is that chance anywhere near guaranteed? Hell no. not even close.

 

[rapbeats]

Pretty often, I'm an Econ major and do analyses and scenarios all the time.
Architects, Bankers, Engineers, Mathematicians, Computer Programmers, Statisticians, and about 100 other professions use advanced math on a daily basis.

wellll the truth is, nowadays. a lot of these professionals are actually not USING that math. they are allowing ready made formulas in the computer programs to do it for them. which is how you have accountants that dont check their balances on invoices. since its already a formula in the excel spreadsheet, why bother. most people are like that now in most professions. there are a select few people actually using ADVANCED math themselves. not just entering data and allowing a computer to crunch the numbers via formulas