I'm sorry what I meant to post was this:
Universities are actually great places. Not only can you learn interesting things and broaden you horizons with the vast amount of resources they provide, they're a great place to meet people too. I'm not just referring to friends, either. If you choose your school wisely, you'll have the chance to network and meet people in your field via your professors and classmates. You can get internships, too, which will give you valuable experience in any given field and further broaden your horizons. And those are barely scratching the surface of all college has to offer. Sure, you'll have to take some BS classes that you may hate and sit through lectures and take tests, but that's just a method of instruction. While I don't like taking tests, I don't dislike them enough to write off college.
It's true that you can learn anything in books that you could learn at college, but that's entirely missing the point. You may read a few books on any given subject and understand them, but you may be not understand things comprehensively or the books may not accurately reflect the current body of knowledge in that field. By attending courses in a university, you can be sure to learn about any given field in a comprehensive manner. Not to mention you may not have somebody to answer your questions and help guide your learning.
Also, I believe Lupe has stated that he's only 17 so take anything he says or any youtube links he posts about college with a huge spoon of salt. The truth is that universities aren't for everybody, and it's certainly not a pre-requisite for success, but if you're like this guy:
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Originally Posted by RRR  It was NOT hard work. I skipped all of my classes and only went to exams and wrote papers (unless there was punishment for excessive skipping). I got just below a 3.0 doing this. I had one class I could have passed in 5th grade. MY experience was the most simplistic drivel imaginable. If you showed up and had a brain, you damn well should get an A. I have learned far more in the months since dropping out of college than I ever learned within it. |
Then rest assured that this state of affairs is your fault, and not any university's. I guarantee if RRR was going to a decent university and not just a junior college then he could have found some challenging or interesting courses, but instead I'm entirely sure he chose to take something lame like English Comp I and College Algebra and naturally found himself bored. Hell, I went to a mediocre state university as a High School senior and ended up taking a semester course on entrepreneurship taught by the man who was the runner up to the most innovative entrepreneurship professor in the United States one year,
Dr. Todd Finkle. It was a great learning experience. We had a wide variety of guest speakers come in to talk about their entrepreneurship experiences and also did several cool projects.