College is an Evil Debt Trap

For so many wretched souls today, college is nothing more than an insanely expensive, dangling carrot of supposed "opportunity" that ultimately turns out to be an evil debt trap.

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[moecool]

Job hunting is akin to the dating scene.

The second you're in a relationship, girls will want you.

They can either smell the confidence on you or they figure if a good looking girl chose you, you must be a person worth having.

Who wants a guy that no girl wanted for a year?

[TheLogicJunkie]

I think it depends on the person, as most people are mentally codependent copycats.

Personally, I think more highly of someone who DOESN'T have a relationship because she can't stand the bulk of assholes in the world, and she has enough self-esteem not to settle and compromise herself.

But those people are so rare as to be singular.

[moecool]

@TheLogicJunkie You should consider yourself fortunate for even making through the hell hole called Duke...the reality is that most people don't have what it takes to graduate from a 4 year university...take me for instance - all I have is a college diploma...I've tried the 4 year university route several times in my life and was met with embarrassing beyond belief humility...profs who simply don't care what they preach about and who never had an interest in helping me when I went for help...

[TheLogicJunkie]

@moecool No, it's not that way at all for me -- I am enormously MISfortunate for having gone to Duke.  You simply have no idea. I'll explain it later, but it's true.

[CyberCelebrity]

I must have watched this video 100 times. Everytime I find myself thinking of going back to college, I watch this video and am reminded as to why I left. The whole part about good books is so true(but rarely discussed), particularly for students in engineering and the hard sciences. As I commented on another video, it is necessary for students in the so-called STEM fields to spend a lot of time searching for high quality, readable books; professors in those fields tend to assign shitty ones.

[haneymc]

I went to the University of Iowa three years ago and coming from a small rural community was not ready for the large social and rat race cultural leap that I was about to take. Needless to say after my freshman year I left and transfered to a local community college and got a better quality education with no student loan debt. As far as I'm concerned our educational system is not what it should be or what it could be. Everything about college is preparation for the competition business model.

[MrSwagger151]

I would happily return my diploma if they gave me the $20,000 to pay back my loans.

The truth is that success in the job market is 70% WHO you know, and 30% WHAT you know.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@barbarian95man It depends on who you ask.

Spoiled in-crowder brats from well-established families will say they're a joke because they're pretty much guaranteed to have a job after college graduation from wherever they choose to go to college. So they won't be accumulating huge debt that they can't pay off.

...The rest of us, however, without established and well-connected families, don't get that easy payoff, so we have to be more careful about debt.

[barbarian95man]

@TheLogicJunkie are community colleges considered as a joke.

[dutytocareforothers]

@haneymc "The competition business model" is a euphemism. Because the real business model is neo-fascism. And soon enough the USA will be another Argentina 1976 era.

[moecool]

@TheLogicJunkie It's nice seeing this video because honestly when I bring up my past around people who have a very impressive education they just simply don't understand...I don't feel stupid or inferior in any way, but I really need to be taught in order to learn new material. Getting talked down to by anyone is the worst feeling in the world...