For me, college was worth it for the experience more than the degree or education. I went to UCLA and got a degree in English. So far all the jobs I've gotten

For me, college was worth it for the experience more than the degree or education. I went to UCLA and got a degree in English. So far all the jobs I've gotten have been because of things I learned outside of classrooms. I am currently making six figures as a self-taught software engineer, but I don't think I would have gotten to this point had I not gone to college. It's not so much what I learned in lectures halls, but the people I met, and maturity I gained while I was there. It didn't hurt that I was there from 1998-2003 and got to see the first internet bubble from the inside (the scour.net guys lived about 10 doors down from me when Michael Ovitz invested in them).