> I'm not sure a degree, a pile of debt, and 4 years of opportunity cost are worth more than your wits and a clean slate. I have to agree, it isn't. College t

> I'm not sure a degree, a pile of debt, and 4 years of opportunity cost are worth more than your wits and a clean slate. I have to agree, it isn't. College these days are a business like any other. Its almost more valuable to toss someone into the deep end to learn to think on their own feet rather than have them come out of a college with 4 years of 'experience' thinking they know anything about how life/business/money works. Going to college to get a certification (i.e. law, medicine) might potentially be worth it but I know people who have left those industries as well. What I think is more unbelievable is that all degrees are 4 year highly structured degrees, which is simply not the case for every job out there. Looking back it all seems so ludicrous, the whole process of being educated in that system. Even video games today are more realistic than this.