> The crazy thing is that most colleges have evolved non-academic party tracks, or simple tuition-extraction tracks: I suffered through a computer science degr

> The crazy thing is that most colleges have evolved non-academic party tracks, or simple tuition-extraction tracks: I suffered through a computer science degree. I didn't make much progress figuring things out after the first year (on account of my head injury [0]). My father values my degree more than I do. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17734058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17734058 When I was finishing up my first year at teh university, I thought I was wasting my time. Pops said, "just get your degree, then you can do what you want." That piece of paper was rather expensive. Later I came to appreciate that college is mostly about signaling. Quotes from your link: > Men by and large compete to be selected by women, but my anecdotal observation is that relatively few women perceive this because they’re in turn focused on a relatively small number of high-status men, with status defined differently in different context. I had to explain this to a passenger one night [1]. She'd remembered me from the time I'd almost taken her somewhere, maybe two months before... [1] https://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys-girls.html https://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys... > Why would a high-status, high-skill man want to marry a random woman with limited skills or prospects? I have notes for a followup to my blog post, tentatively titled "the predicaments of girls and boys". One of my passengers told of a woman who'd snagged herself a "high-status man". After four years she got kicked to the curb. I suspect she was attempting to upgrade herself from 'trophy girlfriend' to 'trophy wife', but her high-status boyfriend probably thought that was beyond the scope of their arrangement.