why people attend college or university?

[Dogs]

For real, though. Most people don't realize you don't need college.

I didn't at one point in time. I thought, college was everything.. Then I got to college, and realized the professors, in some cases, started professing THAT DAY, and had no prior knowledge of the subject at hand. This is a community college of course, but a lot of people speak very highly of a community college...

Me? I learned more in 5 minutes on google than I did in the 26 credit hours obtained so far at a community college.

I also have my own business, which is more or less completely operated by word of mouth and cash, and it pays my bills.

I can buy books from the used bookstore for less than a dollar that give me unbelievably dense material to work with. I can download books off the net, read stuff posted on the net..

It's ALL right there.

The problem, though, with all of is this is that it isn't just college. There's also medical, legal, financial, et al crap that people BELIEVE they NEED before ANYTHING can be done.


They'd never dream that with some fishing string, you could stitch your own wounds, and not have to worry about waiting in the ER with your blood dumping on the ground for 8-15 hours waiting for all of the terrified people with their babies and the 99 degree fever, and all that panic there is..

NO SIR! One half-cup of bourbon, one 10 gauge needle, some fishing line, and a lighter or soldering iron, or anything that generates >= 300 degrees fahrenheit and you have everything you need to fix your own mistakes involving a sharp knife and careless behavior.

Unebelievable isn't it? People really believe the only solution to their problems is other people and their BS.


What I'm using college for now is exposure. That's it. I'm about to need some employees, and more customers. They go to college.

[Daffy Duck]

Originally Posted by Dogs

Me? I learned more in 5 minutes on google than I did in the 26 credit hours obtained so far at a community college.

What did you search for? Or were your teachers mute?

[Writertype]

Originally Posted by Dogs

They'd never dream that with some fishing string, you could stitch your own wounds, and not have to worry about waiting in the ER with your blood dumping on the ground for 8-15 hours waiting for all of the terrified people with their babies and the 99 degree fever, and all that panic there is..

NO SIR! One half-cup of bourbon, one 10 gauge needle, some fishing line, and a lighter or soldering iron, or anything that generates >= 300 degrees fahrenheit and you have everything you need to fix your own mistakes involving a sharp knife and careless behavior.

Unebelievable isn't it? People really believe the only solution to their problems is other people and their BS.

Dude, really?

I have never sewed up a wound, but I imagine you might set yourself up for a nasty infection, or at the very least a disfiguring scar. Not only that, it sounds really painful to (I assume) solder and stitch your own open wound. Also, if you stabbed deep enough and severed an artery are you tying that up, or are you just going to close up your skin and let yourself bleed out into your own tissue? The home-stitching stuff might be okay for a battlefield, but I would not try it unless I really had to!

Back to the focus, though. Another pro for college is that it provides a ton of motivation for you to enrich your knowledge about a variety of topics. You can learn a lot of that stuff on your own, but if you are like me it helps a lot to have your time dedicated to it and a strict deadline (the test) by which you need to understand it. By going to college I am confident that I learned a lot of information that I otherwise just wouldn't have.

[Dogs]

Originally Posted by Writertype

Dude, really?

I have never sewed up a wound, but I imagine you might set yourself up for a nasty infection, or at the very least a disfiguring scar. Not only that, it sounds really painful to (I assume) solder and stitch your own open wound. Also, if you stabbed deep enough and severed an artery are you tying that up, or are you just going to close up your skin and let yourself bleed out into your own tissue? The home-stitching stuff might be okay for a battlefield, but I would not try it unless I really had to!

Back to the focus, though. Another pro for college is that it provides a ton of motivation for you to enrich your knowledge about a variety of topics. You can learn a lot of that stuff on your own, but if you are like me it helps a lot to have your time dedicated to it and a strict deadline (the test) by which you need to understand it. By going to college I am confident that I learned a lot of information that I otherwise just wouldn't have.

Dude, no, you don't solder the wound! you melt the ends of the fishing line together, or find something better to keep it together. That's just something you could use. Do be sterile though.

I keep isopropyl alcohol around for just such an occasion. Stuff happens, and it sucks not to be able to handle it yourself, especially when you're in the middle of nowhere and not planning on going back to somewhere anytime soon.

If there's too much bloodloss, then my friend.. You better do something FAST! Such as take that fishing wire, a stick, wrap the line upstream of the wound and tension it with the stick. Forceps would be good, and pain aint really an issue if the alternative is dead, right?

Just ordinary stitching, though, isn't very painful... atleast not compared to whatever it is I'M stitching, because it takes a lot to motivate me to do that, and the only reason I'd do it anyway is because the wound REALLY needs to heal fast, clean, and without incident. Otherwise I'll settle for a gnarly scar in a heartbeat, or better yet.. No injuries!

Still, though, it's a good skill to have.

[Lei]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

Nahh. You could just work seasonal jobs and travel the world, until you figure out what you want. Or, for the rest of your life.

that is what i am considering about~...

[Brutha]

so, are you saying that going to and completing college and earning lots of money are related.

It's correlated.
But going to college is also correlated with the color of your skin.

Going to college might be as likely to make someone rich as it is to be make someone white.

Good point. I wonder if high class kids just generally have connections to higher paying jobs, via the people their family knows.

That not the only point.
People like to do business with people like them.
As a result it's more difficult for a woman to get a high paying job than it is for a man.
The kind of language that you use comes from how your parents spoke at home. Bodylanguage is similar.
Most people can't consciously tell apart someone from a high class and someone from a low class background based on the way they carry themselves but it still has an unconscious effect.

Conversations at the dinner table with your dad who is a CEO teach you all those informal things that a CEO has to do and how they work.
For politics goes the same thing. As a result families like the Kennedy's or Bush's pass down their political knowledge.

Your worldview gets determined when you are young. If your parents make a lot of money you think that making a lot of money is normal.
Even when you don't fully ascribe to all of those things about the law of attractions, expectations still do a lot.

[Ofthe01]

As a college student who has just started his first year, I have to agree with many of the statements outlined by the previous posters. When going into college, many people are indeed looking at job prospects, social opportunities, and etc.

However, I was quite irritated by how the college experience was undermined by some of these posts. Yes, many people may go into college with "not-so-significant" objectives, but many people also emerge out of college as completely different people. Remember, it's WHAT you do in college that matters, not the other way around. I know people who have changed from close-minded people who view homework as a burden to ambitious future leaders who are always open to change. For many people, college isn't just a place where you study, socialize and sleep.

I have talked to many alumni of my college who have changed for the better in these four years. I know one who just wanted to "go with the flow of life" at first, but then discovered his passion in sociology and change--he is now actively pursuing this passion in D.C. I also know another person who wanted to be a doctor, but completely changed and opened her mind when she studied abroad in South Africa. These people have not just went through "the motions" of college; they have taken advantage of what college truly has to offer.

Of course, there will always be people who will just view college with pessimism and have a so-so life afterwards. Nevertheless, college is a goldmine for opportunities, change, and hope. And for many people, making the effort to mine the gold will spark things that never came to mind initially.

P.S. For those who have already finished college and still have regret, I will give the same advice: learn from your mistakes, don't view anything in a pessimistic manner, and have an open-mind. You can clearly tell that the people who are generally known to be successful have this same attitude. 5% of life are the events that happen to you and 95% of life is what you make of these events.