“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
I’ve recently decided, after tossing the idea back and forth in my head for months, that college isn’t worth it. I won’t be returning to school this Fall semester. Sure, college is fun. And there are a ton of benefits (social life, anyone?), which I’ll get into in another post. But there is a a major downside – and that’s the price tag that comes attached.
Imagine I was fabulously generous (not to mention wealthy), and handed you $50,000 dollars in cash to spend at your discretion. What would you do with it?
You could travel, invest it, start a business, spend it all on cocaine and strippers, or go to a 4 year college.
Traditional society will have you believe strippers college is the sure bet. After all, you’ll always have a degree to fall back on and land a job, right? I question that logic, and now consider it a model of the past. America is having terribly bad economic times that won’t be ending anytime soon. Nearly all aspects of the Read the rest of this entry »