College Is....

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: College Is....

Please choose....

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. All of the above.

Learning for learning's sake is where it's at, but that's not how college is treated by our economy. Buncha fucks.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Grad school is a scam

You can't convince me that someone who has sit in a classroom for another 2 years is any better off than someone who has actually been in the field and has seen first hand what is going on in the world. I think it's a scam set up by employers who don't want to bother paying someone to learn in real life.

[kitkatrose]

3. FUN!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. also college is MUCH fun!

[Skittles]

5. judging from the number of people I work with who have degrees

yet cannot write a decent sentence I'd have to say a lot of graduates did not get what they paid for.

[galadrium]

6. It is BOTH

It is a good thing... i am in it right now... but there are so many rip-offs you have to pay for in the process.

[tigereye]

7. well I can't say that my BA made a huge amount of difference

economically. But I do have better taste in reading material! Seriously, I think college is great in terms of exposing one to diverse opinion and critical thinking. Secondly, grad school did lead to a better paying and generally good career for me. Granted you do have to throw a lot of theory out the window when you are out in the "real world", but it was still useful.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. College is a scam.

I've been in college on and off since 1997. We retake all that shit that we took in high school. If we have to take GEs in College, what the hell is the point of even going to high school? And then we take our major classes, which are a ripoff too. I'm no more prepared for the real world than I was when I got here. I am, but not because of school. If they'd offer budgeting classes and true professional classes, maybe. But I know people who never went to college who really get and understand what professional means more than those who did go to college. And I also know more people who didn't go to college who can construct a proper sentence. College just means you paid thousands for a piece of paper. Those that have lived and learned have much more valuable experience than anyone coming out of college today. And a word for the high schoolers that read this board: High school DOES NOT prepare you for college AT ALL.
Don't believe the lie.
Duckie

[jdsmith]

9. Drop out!

I'm a prof, and I'm serious. There are too many people in college who don't want or need to be here (including some profs). Several years back, Caroline Bird published an article titled "College is a Waste of Time and Money." (You can find it in many freshman essay readers.) She suggests that too many people have convinced themselves, and their kids, that college is essential. But, if you're aiming to be, say, a mechanic, you're far better off getting your hands down into a car's engine.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. I'd be killed if I dropped out now.

I'm two semesters away from graduation. There's no way I'm going to quit. Plus, my boyfriend told me if I didn't get my degree we wouldn't be getting married anytime soon. So I'm finishing college. I've arleady wasted this much money. I might as well finish and get something in return.
Duckie

[JVS]

11. Both.

[tjwash]

12. Like everything else...

...you get out of it what you put into it. If you bust your hump and focus on what you want, and do everything possible to achieve your career goals, you will get a whole lot out of it, and college will serve you very well as a "foot in the door" to places that would have been formerly beyond your reach.

If you go there to spend all your time drinking beer, partying, smoking dope, and chasing all the tail you can get, don't act surprised when you end up selling insurance at your uncle's agency for the next twenty years.

Of course this only applies to regular America. To the ones like the current nimrod in the white house, one can be a towel-snapping egotistical, scumbag frat boy and a complete and utter loser, and still have predetermined "success". If success is defined by everything being handed to you.

[KamaAina]

13. ...all right as long as it's not Bob Jones University.

Or Liberty (Foulwell = chancellor), for that matter.