College is very inexpensive but you must major in a degree that teaches you strong technical skills or at a school that signals that you are highly intelligent

College is very inexpensive but you must major in a degree that teaches you strong technical skills or at a school that signals that you are highly intelligent and socially adept. Racking up debt with out of state tuition at some unprestigious state school is a horrific idea. Loans should be priced according to the true risk presented by the loan recipient. Majoring in CS at Stanford should be very low risk, majoring in Sociology at Iowa State should be high risk. Free tuition just provides a job subsidy to professors in unscientific fields of dubious value. Liberal artists are royally screwed unless they graduate from Princeton or a similarly notable school. Most schools should probably just close.