These posts come up every few months, more often than not written by people that did not go to college. "Students today leave school with so much debt" I finis

These posts come up every few months, more often than not written by people that did not go to college. "Students today leave school with so much debt" I finished school debt-free. I saved up for school and applied for as many scholarships as I could. Many employers will even give you signing bonuses to help pay off student loans. "What it teaches is out of date by the time students graduate" College is not a tech school. Going to college is more about learning how to learn and meeting people. If you really want to go places in your field of study you spend lots of time out of class exploring new ideas, and if this is the case you will likely be ahead of the curve through most of your life. "People learn by doing, not by sitting in a class and being lectured to." Yeah. Most science and engineering classes are heavily lab and project based. "Four years of information is too much to retain" Perhaps for some. However those same people can easily review and be back up to speed. "The truth is that college is one big party" College is what you make of it.