The Question You're Not Asking: Should You Go To College?

[bijou]

If you have (or are currently attending college in pursuit of) an engineering, law, computer science, medical or any other kind of degree that qualifies you to do something with a tangible effect on the world, this is not the column for you. You're not going to get anything out of it. Well, maybe some well-earned Schadenfreude at the expense of all the little grasshoppers who didn't till for winter, but aren't you above all that? Why don't you go somewhere and understand some math, asshole.

For the rest of you, I need to tell you something, and it's probably going to hurt: All that talk about how a higher education improves you as a human being, instantly launches a stellar career and hurls you screaming into the transcendental nirvana of financial stability -- yeah, that was all bullshit. Unless you're going for a professional degree, you really should not go to college.

Read more: The Question You're Not Asking: Should You Go To College? | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-question-youre-not-asking-should-you-go-to-college/#ixzz1KpHxkXdR

This is a good read, Cracked.com does 'serious' quite well.

[thundley4]

DUmmies discuss college vs. working at Mcdonalds.

College isn't for everyone, even if they can afford it.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Given the high cost compared to "my day", it really may not be worth it financially over a career.

However the independence and social skills learned alone would still be worthwhile.

I somewhat agree with the snark in the article.

[Ralph Wiggum]

DUmmies discuss college vs. working at Mcdonalds.

College isn't for everyone, even if they can afford it.

And as Judge Smails famously said in Caddyshack, "The world needs ditch-diggers too!"

[JohnnyReb]

College won't smarten up stupid people....just look at Me-Shall and Obama. They both were 40+ years old, had high paying jobs and still owed on their student loans. Wazzup wit dat?.