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A big reason for going to college is socializing so.. makes no sense to go now.
by jack_pp 5y ago
A big reason for going to college is socializing so.. makes no sense to go now.
- chrisseaton 5y agoSocialising, sport, arts, drama, many people meet their spouse at university, yeah lots of reasons that don't apply any more.
- brtkdotse 5y agoYou can do all of those without incurring crippling debt.
- chrisseaton 5y agoObviously, but a university packages it up into one integrated community. You can't pay to create a community. Maybe that's worth it to you or maybe it isn't. I spent eight years in university in total and really enjoyed it.
- LanceH 5y agoI have a son in college. The services that his school offers are greatly reduced, but the tuition continues to climb year on year. If his major/career had the choice of degree vs work, the latter would be a really good choice right now.
- tootahe45 5y agoI believe the socializing/networking thing is over-sold unless you go to a top-tier uni where students may be from wealthy families and are therefore well socialized, or do something non-cs like business studies. Everyone i studied with were introverts (gamer-types). High school was way better for socializing. Oh and there were like 2 females total in all of my CS classes.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> Everyone i studied with were introverts (gamer-types). Trick is to find ways out of the engineering department. I did Latin as an optional, and I was in a sports team where nobody was an engineer. Plus presumably you aren't living in an engineering-specific halls?
- achenatx 5y agostudy in the education library...
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- goodpoint 5y agoNo no no, the decline predates covid by many years.