To study or not to study?

School fees are pretty expensive these days.
I have just shed my university but just wondering if it's all worth the $$.

given a chance again, I wouldnt have studied.
Studying till you get a degree is over-rated I feel.

What do you guys think?

Depends what degree you get. If you get a degree in "the life of david beckham" then no. And that degree actually exists

I'll be starting my degree in Electronic Engineering next year. Four year masters. If I don't do that the prospect of getting a job as an electronic engineer are pretty slim. If I do, I can be a chartered engineer before I'm thirty and be earning a pretty huge salary.

I'm voting yes for me, but <i>some</i> people do waste their time at university.

How old r u do u mind if i'm asking rtm? I've heard in some european countries they have special program where u can earn your master straight in 4 years.

I don't know that it's a special program, not for engineering at least, all the universities I looked at offered a 4 year Masters. It's pretty common in the uk

Thats actually what I've signed up for - I'm 19 taking a year out, then I go for a four year Masters. It actually works out slightly cheaper to do it that way than a 3yr/1yr split, plus if I change my mind I can swap onto a 3yr Bachelor's up until the end of the second year.

school = hella lot better then real work

school's more interesting + meet friends.
real work=just work
not as rosy as I thought it to be ..

My vote is yes. You can get more oprtunities with a school's degree. And I been on both sides, I left school at the age or 17 and later finished my Engineering at 30 and lost a lot of jobs because I lack of a damn certificate.

who is david beckman?

well, im still a junior in high school, but im going for a 4-year bachelors degree in physics, and then getting my masters in spacecraft-systems engineering, with a minor in theorectical astrophysics, so hrm... yes... lots o' school for me!

oh wow, sounds like loaded semesters for you. I guess you got to love it

dont get me worng, i hate school... being graded and everything sucks, but i like physics, everything is so nice, neat, and orderly...

oooh calendae is gonna be a rocket-scientist!

David beckam is the England Soccer team Captain. He's like a big celebrity over here and there is one university that offers a degree course on the life of David Beckham

I think it depends what career you want to go for. For some jobs it's worth getting into debt for, for other jobs there's just no point

yup! thats me! structural design, and guidance... the two couldnt be furthur apart really, but hey! ill figure out which one i like better later...

I think elemantry-middle school is useless, we could learn that stuff in 4 years instead of 9, I think college would be a waste (we have the internet, there's tons of stuff there) if this society were better, and they based your job on your knowledge, not your peice of paper. It's going to be a waste for me though, I'm gonna try to be a master in martial arts, then go live on an island and start a country of my decendans, though, around the world I will have my legion, this world is gonna be mine!

If something is common knowledge then you can learn from the interned, but the internet is not a valid resourse for a lot of higher learning. I would not want to learn any of the stuff I did in further maths last year (matrix arithmatic, vector geometry, imaginary numbers and trigonomic/hyperbolic differential equations) without tuition. Actually I even failed the last one with tuition lol

And how do you propose we prove our knowledge, without formal testing? Employers look to a piece of paper because it is proof of knowledge.

Just because you know something, does not mean that your future employer knows that you know it.

BTW, I'm going for electronics and artificial intellegence, so if you want to take over the world, you are gonna have to fight off my hoards of rampaging nano-killbots first mwahahahahahahaha!!!