This is great! For anyone reading this, I highly recommend attending the best college you can. The reason why is: the caliber of professor. I was lucky to rece

This is great! For anyone reading this, I highly recommend attending the best college you can. The reason why is: the caliber of professor. I was lucky to receive (IMHO) a world-class engineering education at a university in Illinois. It would have been even better at an Ivy League school. But I have heard various accounts from students at other state schools and community colleges, and there's a distinct lack of nuance in their coursework. For example, my statistics and probability professor explained everything by counting apples and bananas on his fingers. It sounds hilarious, but that's all probability is - counting the number of certain outcome(s) out of all possible outcomes. He broke down even the most complex problems into a series of basic counting operations. A less dedicated professor might have just regurgitated the course material verbatim. Where this really matters is, I don't believe in complexity. Learning to learn is about breaking down problems into smaller pieces that are at most the maximum size that can fit in a human brain, and then working each problem until reaching the final answer. Once you can do that, you can tackle any challenge, like running hurdles, with full confidence that you will succeed in time and with enough resources. Which is why I'm so hard on fields which I don't feel are mature yet, due to their byzantine terminology and barriers to entry. Some low hanging fruit might be: AI's obsessions with tensors, CUDA and the entire concept of a GPU (instead of just using symmetric multiprocessing), quantum physics, organic chemistry, biology, medicine, genetics, law, accounting (the CPA test for example), imperative programming (vs functional programming and fundamentals like Lisp and spreadsheets) and design/repair of internal combustion engines. Now, paying for college is a whole different story. It stopped being affordable in the late 2000s, by design to enrich private interests and create a subjugated class that needs a job to pay off student loans, much like the scam of attaching health insurance to employment. The only feasible answer there is systems thinking. Which looks like working the problem backwards by enumerating the core problems and then deriving a general solution which allows everyone to attend for free, funded by taxes paid by automated robots and billionaires. I mean, that's how Star Trek works, why settle for less. Getting rid of billionaires is just a bonus.