What I "Learned" from College

Unless you're a prodigy at something or know precisely what you want to do for a career, don't go to a university.
Start at community college... because universities are a cold, mean, very rigged game.

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[betastate]

@TheLogicJunkie Not related to post* : Thank you for sharing your opinion and coming clean about your mistakes. Now I know that there are adults out there who share my views , and that I am not alone in this fight againts the world :) The whole BA thing is a monopolly in labour and information flow , especialy with the tools the internet has to offer and also the speed at wich the education looses It's relevance.Why are employers still holding on the that crap? Is it all about giving head today?

[TheCrabman5]

Very few people are concretely told what to do. We have all been horribly mislead. All college has done is create an entire generation of debt slaves.

[TheLogicJunkie]

This turns out to be THE central theme of Germanic culture: they can never stop indulging their techno-vanity, and they are never able to leave well enough alone to just sit back and really savor and rest upon what they've created. They are forever doomed to endless, tortured, wretched productivity and the pursuit of perfection and efficiency.

It's just too much, and in its own way it's ruined this world.

[TheLogicJunkie]

And this is why the German writer Goethe is such an all-important writer in German culture. Because in his "Faust", he depicts a German man whose most passionate wish is to learn all the deepest secrets of the universe, and, in pursuit of this goal, he summons up Mephistopheles himself. And the devil promises to grant his wish -- but with a conditional catch that makes all the difference in the world:

Faust can never stop to enjoy what he's achieved -- he must always move on.

[TheLogicJunkie]

@energeez Well, what is by far the dominant world culture today? Germanic culture.

Germanic culture has long revolved around an obsessive compulsion for overengineering, overcontrol, oversynthesis, and overconquering. They just can't turn their mania for efficiency and technovanity off, or even slow it much down. And what's worse, they just can't seem to stop themselves from their fanatic agenda of insinuating the rest of the world with this way of doing things.

[energeez]

@TheLogicJunkie what cultures are you talking about?

[TheLogicJunkie]

@energeez Yeah, and some people and cultures do WAY too much synthesizing and not enough analyzing.

[energeez]

@TheLogicJunkie synthesizing is kind of like the opposite of analyzing. Analyzing your taking information apart and studying it, synthesizing your bring all the information you have together into a whole, "the big picture".

[TheLogicJunkie]

@LordOfKnights00 I personally like electronic banking and e-commerce. I also like behavioral economics -- and, in particular, what Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is doing at NYU.

[LordOfKnights00]

@TheLogicJunkie I'm a computer science major and i was thinking about doing a dual bachelors program with Mathematics because of the steady jobs available with math; maybe math is the way to go.