http://studenomics.com/current-students/questions-to-ask-someone-before-dropping-out-of-college/ Tue, 22 May 2012 12:21:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://studenomics.com/current-students/questions-to-ask-someone-before-dropping-out-of-college/#comment-91227 Nate Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:46:49 +0000 http://studenomics.com/?p=1087#comment-91227 It's not fair to expect an eighteen-year old to pick his profession, then spend the next four years stuck in an ivory tower studying for their piece of paper. They graduate in a climate with a two-digit unemployment rate, and are expected to find a job- with next-to-no job experience-- in six months so they can start shelling out $700+ loan payments for the next 10-15 years. The education is not the problem. The problem, is the way that education is administered, and the money-grubbing, self-serving, bunch of overly-educated (but amazingly poor-read) group of bureaucrats. You're screwed if you get your degree, and you're screwed if you don't. Chances are a kid, that has his B.A. in Art History with a specialization in Incunabula studies, will not make a million dollars more in his lifetime, in comparison to a high school graduate. The kid with his B.A. will probably have a lower credit score and way more stress though! And in regards to "free time": I've never had more free time! I could work 40 hours a week (and occasionally do), and still finish my honors thesis a semester early. School is not hard! I can't stand it when advisors advise you not to work more than 20 hours a week. If a person is incapable of handling their undergraduate studies and a job simultaneously, they should reconsider higher education altogether! My advice, don't go to college right away. Take a couple years to travel, work, and grow as an independent person. There are very few kids who know what they want to do and then actually do it. Once you start going to school, good luck stopping. That six months of deferment flies by! It’s not fair to expect an eighteen-year old to pick his profession, then spend the next four years stuck in an ivory tower studying for their piece of paper. They graduate in a climate with a two-digit unemployment rate, and are expected to find a job- with next-to-no job experience– in six months so they can start shelling out $700+ loan payments for the next 10-15 years. The education is not the problem. The problem, is the way that education is administered, and the money-grubbing, self-serving, bunch of overly-educated (but amazingly poor-read) group of bureaucrats. You’re screwed if you get your degree, and you’re screwed if you don’t. Chances are a kid, that has his B.A. in Art History with a specialization in Incunabula studies, will not make a million dollars more in his lifetime, in comparison to a high school graduate. The kid with his B.A. will probably have a lower credit score and way more stress though! And in regards to “free time”: I’ve never had more free time! I could work 40 hours a week (and occasionally do), and still finish my honors thesis a semester early. School is not hard! I can’t stand it when advisors advise you not to work more than 20 hours a week. If a person is incapable of handling their undergraduate studies and a job simultaneously, they should reconsider higher education altogether! My advice, don’t go to college right away. Take a couple years to travel, work, and grow as an independent person. There are very few kids who know what they want to do and then actually do it. Once you start going to school, good luck stopping. That six months of deferment flies by!

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