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whytaxi: sofapizza: afternoonsnoozebutton: jonathan-cunningham: This is adjusted for inflation. I don’t think our education system is about education anymore. well fuck me in the beard. i don’t feel like i can really say anything new on the subject that hasn’t already been said, but- i’m not at all unhappy that i went to college. it was a excellent experience and i got a top-notch education and you know what? i had an excellent time, despite the ups and the downs, and i’m glad that i went. i also knew the kind of debt that i was getting myself into when i started college; i knew how much money i’d saved up (well, my parents had saved up, really), and approximately how much it was going to cost and i knew from the start that i was going to end up with a huge buttload of loans. the only thing i wish is- and it’s hard to pinpoint this down exactly- i just wish i hadn’t been lead to believe that 1) college is a necessary thing, that 2) a good college means a good career, and 3) that a career is necessarily what follows college. i don’t want to say that i was lied to, because i’m fairly certain that nobody said those exact things to me, but having graduated college and entered “”“”the real world”“”” i certainly feel as though i was lied to. i really wish that there hadn’t been this pressure to start college right out of high school, and i wish that i’d known - or that somebody would have given me an inkling - how hard it would be to find a job in my field. i suppose that the latter is a bit fanciful; no one really knows what the future holds or what swings the economy will take, but as for the former- i really wish i’d taken a year or so off, and taken some time to figure out my life and what i want and where im going, instead of being pressured to go to college right out of high school. i’m doing that now- the figuring myself out bit- but now i’ve got a mountain of debt to pay off and no really to myself; a good portion of my time these days is spent job-hunting. anyway i guess i just wrote a novel about my feelings apologies all -- source link