Is College Worth It?

[Warik]

Remember when you were in Elementary school and the teacher always yelled at you and you kept quiet and behaved? Don't you get that feeling now telling you: "Damn... I should have talked back and defended myself. She can't do shit to me and I know I'm right. I wish I didn't waste my time and eat shit."

The real world = now.
College = Elementary school.

Just wait and see.

It's a known fact - everyone who went to college tells you it's a waste, everyone who DIDN'T go to college tells you its a necessity.

Why am I going? Cause it's free (and no, my parents aren't paying for it) and because I should be done by 2003. Otherwise I would have told my school and my professors who somehow are qualified to teach Computer Science, yet teach instead of work in the real world, to fuck off.

-Warik

 

[Citruscide]

I went to college on a full ride athletic scholarship... but I would have went regardless if I had that or not... I consider myself a smart person... and I love the area of Law... and well, I just couldn't do what I wanted to do without college and law school

Do I regret it... HELL NO. Would I do it over... HELL YEAH. Do I think I've learned more having gone to college? FUCK YES. I can count many things I have learned that I wouldn't have known if i didn't attend.

Don't listen to anyone but yourself Golfer... if you don't want to go... don't go. If you do, then go. Fuck it... You live your life... others don't live it for you.

C

 

[TheProject]

Remember when you were in Elementary school and the teacher always yelled at you and you kept quiet and behaved? Don't you get that feeling now telling you: "Damn... I should have talked back and defended myself. She can't do shit to me and I know I'm right. I wish I didn't waste my time and eat shit."

The real world = now.
College = Elementary school.

Just wait and see.

It's a known fact - everyone who went to college tells you it's a waste, everyone who DIDN'T go to college tells you its a necessity.

Why am I going? Cause it's free (and no, my parents aren't paying for it) and because I should be done by 2003. Otherwise I would have told my school and my professors who somehow are qualified to teach Computer Science, yet teach instead of work in the real world, to fuck off.

-Warik

Warik, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. I have been to college, still have yet to finish, and I wouldn't call it a waste.

Some classes you will never use in the real world, some you will, but it's all part of the package as a whole. The real reason that college is valuable is because of that piece of paper. That alone is required to get you in the door at some companies, particularly with the job market the way it is right now.

And I've had comp sci teachers who worked in the real world, and taught part-time. They were the best teachers, IMHO, because they knew when to stop pushing the theory and when to tell us how things really worked. Some people would just much rather teach comp sci than work in the field. Much less stress, I'd bet.

 

[BuggyWhips]

What you put into college is hat you get out of it. If you party all the time, never study and get through by the skin of your teeth, then you'll prbably learn nothing and think of it as a over extended over priced summer camp. If you do the work , you not only learn the material they teach you but you learn to look at and interpret things rather than looking at a book practicing memmorization. If anything college teaches a person how to think in different ways from what we were used to in Highschool. By the time you reach colege you have skils to come to your own conclusions about things and not have to sit there and just absorb information like we did in high school. It reqires alot more personal thinking which is one of the reasons why we dont sit i a classroom for 8hr/day 5 days/week. Your brian begins to take information and teach itself. The purpose of the professors is to just provide information and give direction to you to get the ball rolling. By the end of the 4 years you become cultured, enlightened and learn alot more about the real world than you thought.
Im going into my last semester of school and even though I had to take alot of BS classes I did learn alot through them, mainly because they were on topics I never cared for before and I knew nothing about.

A friend of mine who s my age spent the last 4 years taking all crap classes. I have no idea if she knew they wouldt count toward anything but in reality where she has 131 credits, she technically has 24 real useable credits and a whole lot of wasted time. As long as you have a goal or some direction you wanna head toward, get an advisor at school and they can plan a path for you...
Kev

 

[MaxBiceps]

bro, education is the most important thing going for you right now. my parents always stressed education, and now that i'm older i understand why. stick with the school for a little while longer. if it's not for you then leave. you can always go back.

the bottom line is you can lose jobs/businesses/money, but once you own a degree, nothing can take that away....
someone help me out......

 

[Warik]

Warik, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. I have been to college, still have yet to finish, and I wouldn't call it a waste.

Excerpt from today's "Logic for Computer Science Class"

"Suppose that F is a string and f is a symbol of length 1 within string. Prove that the number of "(" symbols in F is equal to the number of ")" symbols in F."

1) Of what significance is this to my life?
2) Of what significance is ANY VARIATION, NO MATTER HOW DISTINCT, to ANY part of my life, no matter HOW INSIGNIFICANT.
3) Suppose F is "Hello, World! =)" The number of "(" symbosl in F no longer equals the number of ")" symbols.

Stupid fucking class in a stupid fucking semester at a stupid fucking college that I don't need.

What is stopping me from getting a programming job in the real world?

Is it skill?
No.
Is it experience?
No.
Is it a worthless piece of paper that I'm going to give to my parents instead of framing it on my wall since they seem to be more interested in it than I am?
Yes.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

once you own a degree, nothing can take that away....

Yeah... once you own an incurable disease nothing can take that away either. The fact that nothing can take something away doesn't necessarily mean that the thing is worth anything.

-Warik

 

[Enrico]

If someone needs help in math you can pm me--I'm in Calculus II though, so I can't do some things, but all trig and most Calculus stuff I do know

Just an offer.

 

[gymtime]

Few people truly appreciate college until years after. Like I said Warik, you'll never use all that math in the real world. But ultimately, that smartass mind of yours will be even smartassyer for having gone through it. Read my gym analogy. It was brilliant.

 

[rudedawg]

College is fun but worth it? I doubt it.

Why would you go to college to become a Navy Seal? Do they have to have college degree? If anything join the Navy and let them pay for a big part of your college.