Do you regret college? (skills, school, graduates, paying)
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NO. Knowledge is power and it enriches your life from that point on. Everything around you becomes more clear, brilliant, relevant. You understand relationships and the whys and wherefores of so much.
Sometimes I do but mostly I don't. I do wish I would have transferred lol
How about the rest of you...you regret it?
I regret not socializing in college. All I ever did was go to class. No drinking, no partying, no dating. I don't feel like I learned much about life while I was there, which is supposed to be a huge part of the college experience.
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I wouldn't have made it as far up the ladder as I did in my first real job in CA for 17 years nor have the great job I have now
without the degree. I never had much of a social life as I worked while going to college but did meet my wife there so there's no way I could get away with regretting it!
Yes I regret college. It is a huge money-making machine for the colleges and a bunch of useless busy work for the students that strap us with debt.
Then I discovered trade schools. These provide a highly specific fast-track path to a career, with no need to repeat (and pay for!) English, Mathematics, History, Sciences that were already drilled into us the first 12 years of education.
No, I don't regret it at all. I'm glad that I had the wonderful opportunity to go. My student loans are in the 6-figures and my income is ridiculously low. But to me, that's a separate issue (that college is ridiculously overpriced). Very proud to be a college graduate.
I regret not knowing what I really wanted to do out of high school and finding out what I was really good at. I probably shouldn't have taken Business Administration. For one thing, it's too broad. I have an Associate's degree and went on to a 4 year school, but didn't finish. I was trying to get experience in between, but couldn't get it. I always kept that option open. Now I'm in my late 30's, early 40's and back taking an online course to go towards a Bachelor's degree. I kind of wish I would have taken something that I would have enjoyed and loved and been able to use as a career. But, in high school I took business courses and figured Business Administration was the way to go and that there would always be a job for it.
u got to be kidding--- an extension of your childhood primarily devoted to socializing
most beautiful women you will know in your life time, cheap eats and lodging absolutely no expectations of your having to produce for at least 5 years while you declare BS majors that you will never pursue (instead take an endless sea of BS electives). you dont answer to anybody and with luck will dodge the student loan altogether. you are of course joking regrets about college.
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