Originally Posted by Master_Shake

Farts smelling like roses? What are you talking about? I'm not suggesting the world should be run a different way, I'm talking about the way things are. College is only going to get you a better job working to make others rich. If you're a self-motivated intelligent person with resources, you'll probably be a success with ot without college.

If you're only moderately intelligent, without financial resources, you might end up just like myself and many others. Working a meaningless job in middle-managment waiting to die of cancer. My life would have been just as fufilled without wasting years and a hundred thousand dollars in college.

But hey, do your own thing, man. I can only speak to my experiences. Hopefully everything will work out for you and you'll graduate with honors, find a great job that pays off your student loans in no time, your wife won't divorce you and leave you in involuntary servitude, and you won't get cancer and die.

Originally Posted by Master_Shake

And I think you have it backwards. Going to college (at least, for those of us without rich parents) means you have to pay back the man for 20 years. Are four years of college worth 20 years of financial slavery?

How much more does a college graduate make over someone who goes to a technical school? Factor in four years of lost work and the loan repayment and there's no way you can convince me a liberal arts graduate who goes to work for an insurance company is going to make more than a fully qualified plumber.