primitives regret decisions about college

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Oh my.

Liberal_in_LA  (1000+ posts)      Sat Nov-21-09 11:32 PM NON-DONOR
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Poll question: If you could start again, would you make a different decision regarding college?

Knowing what you now know about life, (this suck-ass economy, foreign competition, student loans) would you make a different decision? If you could go back in a time machine or wave a magic wand?

Another way to put it...what would you tell a young person finishing high school?

Poll result (107 votes) 

I did not go to college but would go if I could start over  (13 votes, 12%)
I went to college but would NOT go if I could start over  (8 votes, 7%)
I went to college and would STILL GO but with a DIFFERENT MAJOR  (41 votes, 38%)
I went to college and wouldn't change anything about my decision  (29 votes, 27%)
I did not go to college and would make the SAME decision  (3 votes, 3%) Vote
Other  (13 votes, 12%)

Big bonfire, so only the PoP are quoted here.

vadawg  (1000+ posts)      Sat Nov-21-09 11:34 PM NON-DONOR
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1. if you had a scholarship or the military paying your way id say go for it

otherwise is the financial burden worth it, can you reap the rewards at the other end, are you going to end up with a degree in some obscure subject, $100k in debt working as a barista in starbucks.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-21-09 11:40 PM NON-DONOR
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4. Different major

SoCalDem  (1000+ posts)        Sun Nov-22-09 12:02 AM
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14. I would go to class, party less, and would not fritter away a full-ride scholarship

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)        Sun Nov-22-09 01:04 AM NON-DONOR
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34. Went, would go again w/same major, but would take a yr off first to work and travel

See and experience the world outside my parent's house and school structure.

Actually, the whole bonfire's well worth getting out a boat and rowing over to Skins's island to see in its original glory.

[jukin]

I got a crisp new Franklin that says less that 1% of the DUmmys could get a Science degree.  In college in liberal arts degree (psyche, soc, art...) was an automatic A and I didn't bother going to classes.  That gave me more time for  Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, etc.

You DUmbasses just want the job without actually putting in the time.  But you wouldn't want the job because it requires lots of unpaid overtime.

[GOBUCKS]

That gave me more time for  Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, etc.

The thing DUmmies hate about those awful math and science courses, beside the fact that they are so judgmental, so right-or-wrong, is the astonishing lack of diversity among the students. All Asians and Anglos, being instructed by a Chinaman that no one can undestand. Not a democrat in sight anywhere.

[JohnnyReb]

The thing DUmmies hate about those awful math and science courses, beside the fact that they are so judgmental, so right-or-wrong, is the astonishing lack of diversity among the students. All Asians and Anglos, being instructed by a Chinaman that no one can undestand. Not a democrat in sight anywhere.

Well what do you know....engineering hasn't changed in 45 years.

The Chinaman that taught one of my Physics labs would count...
un, do, fee fo, fi....... ....Hey, I shouldn't have been laughing, he was smarter than me.