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By: Unknown_Quandary

Unknown_Quandary — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:35:57 +0000

I do believe the benefits of college degree have been vastly overstated and we should feel aggrieved. Yet the fact remains there is no one to focus the brunt of our frustration on. I still firmly believe in the long term it will pay dividends and also instills indirect benefits. Personally, I will never regret my decision to pursue higher education. My brother and I are the sons of immigrants from a predominantly poor and violent neighborhood in New Jersey and we have managed to graduate from some of the top schools in the country including an Ivy League in 2009. Though we are still actively seeking employment, the indirect benefits have been great. We only need to look around at our peers to see that not only have we managed to circumvent most of the things that send kids towards a bad path. We didn’t get wrapped up in gangs or have kids at a young age. That in itself justifies the tuition(though to be fair we got a lot of scholarships). Instead, we were able to attain amazing college experiences where we could talk with our peers about the finer points of Proust, pontificate on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, or just tell our international friends that their respective hometown soccer club sucks while we played beer pong. Even though its rough at present, I am optimistic for the future. We shouldn’t be resentful of our time spent at school because now is a struggle. It’s hard adjusting from autonomy to living at home or even from having like-minded peers you can have intellectual discussions with to people who are scared of books or from a serene Boston community back into a sketchy neighborhood. Even if it is tough, don’t give up. Keep reading, keep learning,and teach yourself new skills to help you compete. If you can’t find a job and can afford to do it, volunteer to work free in what you want to do (most places wont turn down free labor and will give flexible hours). Take care and I wish you all the best.

By: Omar

Omar — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:05:48 +0000

Universities are no longer about educating people. They are now about swindling people into pursuing programs that seem interesting but lead to fields that are already saturated or lead to nowhere at all. In this economic climate, that increasingly substantial amount of money one would invest in a university education would be better invested in starting your own business. Unless you are medical doctor or lawyer material, for the most part, college is a waste of your hard earned money.
Like my Alma mater for instance, they aggressively market BSc & MSc programs in marine biology which are very interesting & enjoyable, but translate into either unemployment or underemployment if you are fortunate enough.
My advice; get an associate degree in business just to learn the basics, take the bulk of the money you would spend on a full degree & start your own business & create jobs in the long run.
Any program in science, social work, any thing else other than business management or classic professional stuff i.e. doctor, lawyer, teacher etc. leave it alone.

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By: letter to my 2005 self

letter to my 2005 self — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:18:58 +0000

hello self, its 2005 and you just graduated high school, which means by 2009 you’ll be done with college. Dont do what your parents (baby boomers whos college education was not only valuable but led all of them to a great future and away from war.) Go learn a skill, take the 50,000 your going to spend on college and bank it somewhere safe. In the mean time, work skilled jobs. Learn everything you can about everything that requires knowledge and training to operate. You family will be upset you didnt go to college, but thats because there oblivious with reality, to them, the college degree is the ticket to the future. Ask them, whos future? Your future? no, their future, there using you to complete what they were told not to achieve. Your an adult now, start making your own decisions, blind faith in your family, infact, blind faith in anything will lead you to the wrong end of a gun barrol.

Just under 20% of your 2009 college class will get a job, 2008 will fair no better. Work hard, and endure. Thats all you can do. theres no room for complaining or venting your frustration because I’m telling you now, everyone shares the same pain. The best advice I can tell you, its to work as hard as you can, and save everything. Alot of sharks out there intrested in releaving you of your excess funds. College is one of those sharks. The U.S Goverment is not interested in your well being, record everything you see, alot of it will make you cry. I’m writing you from the year 2010, and I dont recognise my country anymore…and Im only 22, begs the questions, what was my country, and how would I recognise it, for I’ve never known anything else, yet I feel there is much else that could work other than this.

If mom and dad call you crazy and get upset and call you a failure, just take it for what it is. Our generation has alot of that coming our way. God bless Gen Y

and may god destory the “College INC”

By: apol

apol — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:02:18 +0000

im afraid im going to graduate soon. if the 2009 graduates are forgotten and the 2008 graduates were history and was thrown to the world of oblivion, then i guess my future is at stake.
how i wish that 2011 graduates will be spared from this unemployment drama.
i hate this reality.

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