just graduated on sunday. its exactly what you make of it. if you think its a waste of time it will be a waste of time.
How many of you are currently full time college students?
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The degree is completely useless... If you are smart 10 years down the road the money, bitches, and cars will be multiplied by 100.
I remember sitting as a senior in h.s. laughing around 11 a.m. because I knew by then I had made more than my teacher. That is not to say things cannot be learned. As for myself? I just graduated my first year of college basically because my mom's side of the family felt very strongly about me going. College is a good time though, I don't think anyone can legitimately disagree with that who has been and gotten involved socially. Will I go back next year? Depends what happens this summer.
If I'd had a choice, I would've been a college kid. I would've majored in business.
Full-time at Wake Forest University. It's hard to balance business and social life mainly, you just have to know what's more important. I sacrifice a lot business wise for social because you'll never be in the position to be in this atmosphere again.
Although I do make decent money online, I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night comfortably for the next 20-30 years without a degree. (Especially when a wife and kids depend on me) Everyone's different though.
Although I do make decent money online, I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night comfortably for the next 20-30 years without a degree. (Especially when a wife and kids depend on me) Everyone's different though.
"degree degree degree" at this moment nothing is stable so for those of you say stability comes with a degree, you are fuckin wrong. its hard to find a job in almost every industry.
Who gave a degree to the first guy who had one? Surely someone without a degree
^wut he said.
if i could do it all over again the only thing i would change is to work less, rack up more debt, and live abroad for at least a year. Once you get going with making money and / or having a family, it pretty much consumes your entire life. Not that making money is bad (obviously its great), but i know very few rich people who have a lot of time, and while you can get more money you can't get more time.
WF lurking University of Texas student, here.
Not sure where you're going with point "b". University provides the most institutionally-accessible pussy you'll ever get in your life.
I feel like I'm wasting my youth away in university. One more year to go. I joined the prestigious business school thinking I'd learn about entrepreneurship and business sense. Then I found out they just want to funnel you into a mid-level management position. The closest degree to my interests was MIS so I'm learning what feels like deprecated database/VB.net building when I'd rather be learning things like iPad/Android development. I'm teaching myself mobile phone development on the side but it gets in the way of learning my far less marketable MIS degree skills.
The only reason university is worth it, unless you're learning technical or institutional stuff and actually acquiring knowledge (engineering, medicine, etc.), is because there's this big (and thankfully diminishing) taboo in our society against not having a 4-year degree. I figure my resume will follow me around the rest of my life so I might as well get a good school and GPA on it.
However, university also presented me the opportunity to study abroad via exchange last semester which was the best experience of my life. My interests have changed so much in college, especially after studying abroad, that I could see myself bartending in Country A for a year then teaching English is Country B for a year then island hopping southeast Asia for a year. Confining myself to the jobs my graduated friends are getting is pretty much the opposite of what I want. Making $XXX,XXX figures working your ass off in a 7 year contract is underwhelming compared to the millionaire lifestyle you can live after cleaning toilets in America for 6 months and then spending it in Thailand.
You're setting up a false dichotomy. I've multiple undergraduate and undergraduate degrees. And yes I am damned proud of it because it took alot of fucking work!!
Did I also mention I'm semi retiring 2 weeks from Wednesday to write a book (you can check how long I've been here started in the n00b section in May of 2007) in small surfing village off the coast of [name of foreign country].
School was the best experience of my life - as it was for alot of risk-taking successful entrepreneurs I kick it with. Wouldn't trade it for all the acai berry circa 2008 keywords in the world.
What I said before still stands. If you can combine an education from THE RIGHT SCHOOL FOR YOU with the practical stuff you may learn being an entrepreneur, you really do become untouchable.....
It's like an old say...
The only thing better then money is.....LOTS OF MONEY....the only thing better then LOTS OF MONEY is....LOTS OF OLD MONEY
I'm saying this because alot of young folks might be reading this and they shouldn't be swayed in the wrong direction.....
A lot of people have who don't finish school or who go to school end up with a chip on their shoulders or silently insecure because they dropped out just a few weeks before graduation....that isn't to say all college drop outs are "losers" but my father aways said "don't start something you can't/won't finish!"
You should use the advanced search function to search older threads about this....in fact read the advice of the founder of this forum (a college drop out...or business drop in as I like to call it, lol).....read what he says and HIS ADVICE IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO WHAT 50 CENT SAID....
Going into my sophomore year at the University of Houston. Education is something you make of it. I really enjoy learning new things so that could be a reason why I don't find all the pointless classes so pointless...
Experience and knowledge make you untouchable, not education. It is the experience of getting that education made it worthwhile and not the education itself. Education means nothing in business, and especially on the internet.
It is a free for all world on the internet. People become successful for different reasons but ultimately it comes down to hunger and personality. The key to success is fail but fail smarter. I can't even count how many mistakes I have made in the last half a year after I dropped out from supposedly the second best university in Canada. Also, I have lost 6 figures just the last half year in making mistakes. Now I am more knowledgeable and more experienced than I was half year ago and I keep thinking why didn't I drop out earlier. AND I met a lot of smart people at conferences and people I will never meet if I were in school. They gave me many new ideas and hooked me up with a lot of private campaigns.
I am not saying education is not important and being Asian myself, it is very important, but it is just different for everyone. When the opportunity comes, just don't hesitate and drop out because you'll never get the same opportunity again. I wish there was someone there holding my hand when I made all these decisions.
I went for two art degrees--Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting and Drawing, and Art History. While they've never been particularly useful for job apps, I don't regret choosing those fields at all!
i dont believe you plz post your clickbank checks immediately
*you changed it you bastard
Just starting my second year in college, so a Sophomore here... college is a waste of time, i just look at the teachers and wonder how they go through life all this time... hahaha as im making more than double or triple their paychecks... what the fuck do they know!?