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I envy you.

Well it was a lot easier 4 years ago then it is today, I'm sure. I was never a studious person except when it came to what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it and found early on in college to tweak everything around that. After that I did substantially better in school. Although college didn't teach me much, and overall I still feel that college was a monumental waste of time and money.

Today, in the U.S. If you want to make anything more than minimal wage you HAVE to go to college. So its a great little racket they have going. When I hire people though, I could care less that you had a 4.0 GPA and were on the deans list at Harvard or Yale. I ask those people into interviews just to have fun watching them break under pressure. I could care less if you can play lacrosse and the violin and you can sing opera. I want the guy that was the 12yr old computer guru back in the day. I want the guy that can suck down 30 Mt. Dews listening to Rammstein at ear-bleeding volume for 20 hours a day writing the next pandemic grade computer virus.

And I certainly don't want a MIS, IST or Business Major. I want the majors where at orientation the head honcho stands in front of all the freshmen and says "By the time you graduate, 40% of you will become alcoholics because the material is so tough - and oh yeah, you can forget about graduating in 4 years - if you make it out in less than 7, I'll be impressed."

I have to disagree with that statement. I make way more than minimum wage and I don't have a degree.

Well, I mean its not like you can't get a decent job without a degree. But it is substantially harder. Bill Gates doesn't have a degree and he was at one point the richest man alive.

College is a good idea, but these universities need to go. It shouldn't cost $30,000 a year, plus $3000 a year for books, plus $3,300 a year for room and board. Then they have Lab Fees, Parking permit fees, this fee that fee. It's pathetic.

I liked the military better than college. They give you everything you need and all you need to do is blow up some poor country to get the president's washy washy from an intern off the front page of the news.