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I can't speak to the position of the OP, however, I have a general point I don't think I've seen mentioned. For some individuals, a college degree may not serve
by sopooneo 14y ago
I can't speak to the position of the OP, however, I have a general point I don't think I've seen mentioned. For some individuals, a college degree may not serve much value, either financially or for it's own sake. However I feel that collectively, all else being equal, a world where most poeple have been exposed to a broad range of views and have learned the liberal arts and sciences from passionate thinkers is better than a world in which they haven't.
- choxi 14y agoyou're assuming that you wouldn't experience a broad range of views unless you went to college. what about working at a couple companies, and using that money to travel twice a year?
- oconnore 14y agoI won't say that you can't approximate what you get from a liberal arts education without actually going, but it will be far more difficult than working at a few companies and traveling, it will require an incredible amount of determination, and you won't be able to do it alone. For several years you spend the bulk of your time reading, writing, and perhaps most importantly: having very smart people critique your writing. All of this follows a program designed and honed over time to make you a capable and well balanced person. Where else are you going to find this?
- sliverstorm 14y agoMy life has been a series of "big fish, little pond", plus the in-between periods when I manage to find a bigger pond and grow. College was a bigger pond, and it eventually enabled me to find a still-bigger pond. Experiences I had during (but not at) college make me feel like had I not gone, I would most likely have wound up hopping from tiny pond to barely-larger pond to barely-larger pond. At least for me, that would have been crushing.