I think the goal is to help my child get the best outcome from life. Even though I think college today is a bad deal, I'm not going to go full Thiel - I agree w

I think the goal is to help my child get the best outcome from life. Even though I think college today is a bad deal, I'm not going to go full Thiel - I agree with you that networking is the critical function of college, and there's exposure to a variety of fields. I think college is at its best as a petri dish for serendipity. You shouldn't have to settle for shitty jobs in school, and focus on schoolwork is overrated. I honed graphic design, salesmanship, and web design skills from the three I had. The last actually was a distraction from school, but then "web" became a paying job for me when it wasn't in the school curriculum. The constraint of needing to work created a bunch of opportunities.