I'm a Junior in college and I initially thought college wasn't worth it by the numbers. I was going here because.. well... I had no idea what to do. I've now co

I'm a Junior in college and I initially thought college wasn't worth it by the numbers. I was going here because.. well... I had no idea what to do. I've now come around. College is absolutely useless unless you find every possible way to waste every other student's money on things you want to do. The education you'll get is going to be sub-par (unless you're going to a big-5), the professors are short tempered and provide poor service, and you're going to have to learn a hole bunch of things you honestly don't give a crap about. At my college you need to take Calculus 2 to be able to take Linear Algebra..... If you follow the standard course layout you'll probably be taking Lin on your Senior year. This is after 2 courses in discrete math where you apply Lin! It's a joke. It's a fares. We all know it's BS. But it's worth it if you take advantage of every single service. 1. Use your college email to get software 2. Use your college email to get hardware (starving artist discount) 3. Take advantage of internal funding to do research you want to do. 4. Start clubs in your subject area. (My college provides $700/semester for each club!) 5. Talk to, and get to know, all of your good profs 6. Talk to, and get to know, researchers 7. Take advantage of student discounts (Amazon Prime, etc). 8. Your school will likely give you a laptop discount 9. Find the IT gift shop (trash room). Free hardware! 10. Find a job on campus if you otherwise have nothing to do. So far, in my 2 full years of school, I've presented research findings at an international conference, funded my own research from an internal grant solicitation, obtained piles and piles of cheap software and hardware, I'm attempting to upgrade my Thinkpad to one of the new x260/x270s via a school program, and my next project is to start a Retro-Computer Club at NJIT. I'm starting this club because I don't have $700/semester to spend on old hardware nor do I have the space to store old hardware in my shoebox apartment. You know who does? My school! Hopefully by my senior year I'll have created a mini-museum for the rest of the students. I'll have to brush off my old OS kernel I started and re-read my copy of Operating Systems Implementation and Design. Unfortunately not every student can do all of these things. With my school's tuition being 20k/year I'm easily milking 5 to 10k/year back out of the university. If everyone did this then the money pot would run dry. If you're not going to use everything you're paying for, you're getting ripped off. Classes aren't worth 5k/year, let alone whatever you're being charged.