Higher education

A financebro friend from my old school called this morning to catch up after some time and I've come to notice uni education is absolutely soykaf. He asked for investment funds from his family back then and now has a tech startup. We used to scold him for not pursuing higher education and now all of my acquanitances who went to uni are either struggling to find jobs or wasting away in a low pay 9-5. What went wrong? Did you benefit from higher education? Did academics work out for you? What did you study if it did? What did you study if it didn't? What would you pursue if you had the chance to go to college again? I wanna hear your experience lainons.

study with books at home and just go to uni for exams day in order to get paper and access to uni research. it is that simple, teachers are just people with way more finite knowledge that a good bookshelf. ps: in my case is ce but i am kinds stretching it in order to remain with free software licenses.

I am benefitting right now but I didnt when I went to a four year in a success sense. I did overall benefit im glad I went, up until the last year though I had a partial scholarship and the rest was covered by federal subsidized loans with maybe just 3 being unsubsidized. I owe 30k in debt and only because it took me 5 years instead of 4 to get my degree, the monthly payments are totally doable for me and in fact I can usually overpay. This isnt to brag about my situation but just some context because someone who owes like 60k or even the amount i owe but cant pay it im sure would have a very different valid opinion. I went to school for design and im at a community college right now because I felt like my brain was stagnating and its only like 300$ a semester and I feel like im getting a 10x better education than I did at my 4 year. Our professor (i take like the same one for every class) is always providing us the connects for various markets and same for the more advanced students. Some people literally just use the class as a studio basically and are off doing their own thing during lectures, and critiques of their work are practically free lessons instead of critiques. In some sense im like why did I go to a four year instead of just doing this, but to be honest had I done this out of highshool I also would not have appreciated it like I do now. Im sure there was the same or even better extracurricular opportunities at my four year I just wasnt paying attention to them. I could maybe say I wish i had a job before attending college to light the fire under my ass about my prospects when not in education, but had I done that I likely would have just gotten more depressed than I was out of highschool. My 4 year is what led me to make some of my first friends in years and also attend counseling, so its hard to disparage it. But if I wasnt in my situation I think a job and then community college would have been the move. Overall I absolutely think higher education is worth it, its really the only thing I get any joy in at this point besides the people I meet also in higher education. I probably would not feel jealous of your financebro friend regardless of how much more he mad cause if im being very real I can tell when someone skimped the education and I dont get along very well with them. Call me elitist but thats how it is, I have enough money to keep going to school and thats all I need really I dont have any point of relation to someone who was a dropout success. I dont care that they diy'd it and are more successful they are lacking way too much critical thinking and general fundamental knowledge often for me to get along with them or agree with them oh most things. Not my sort of person, they could end up being the richest person in the world id still find them lacking. And I cant say that for just everyone who doesnt pursue any post hs education, I can really only specifically say it for people who have the means to now and dont and see it as some big scam. Most others are still very curious and want to learn and are more just dissapointed they cant continue some kind of schooling.

In a group project they plagiarized my work and I ended up without a diploma. If unwound pursue higher education, whatever it is, I would make sure to connect to good people. Friendly peers, working as a student is beneficial to get into fields, to network, and definitely find a mentor. If you just try to get a degree to be on your own you can throw money in the rain and sit in the puddle and end up just in the same position 6 semester of hard study.

Yeah, getting to the groove of getting into classes, working for exams, and studying was a great wake up call for me to whip me into shape after years of slacking off. Also, some of my greatest opportunities were through connections made in uni. I studied economics, and I don't think I needed uni to "learn" it, but having an environment where everyone is studying and researching the same thing was a great boost.

>>86122 University is a pyramid scheme. Now that they're running out of people to gyp the trickle down has completely stopped, and they're strangling the newcomers while giving nothing in return.