<pre><code>Hmm, so then it is worth it then. I just ask because I see so many people (really about 50 or so), who managed to do everything that I want to do without college. And looking at the great business titans like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Moran, in which 2 of the 3 did not even finish high school let alone attend a college makes me question what’s the point. One major problem that I have is that you have to pay so much for college, and I hear many stories of how college has no worth due to excessive spending on sports gyms etc. Now I know that the ivies number 1 priority is education, and I have heard great things about them, which is my reason for being so ivy fanatic. My hate for paying can also be attained with my school experience by far, which has been that they focus more on discipline and ‘career’ planning, than actual education. I mean I go to school to be a better person and learn right, not be disciplined like I’m in some camp, where I can only urinate after taking a bathroom pass, have 7 camera’s catch a shot at me on the way, and then have to write down the EXACT time I leave and enter -.-. Also in classes we have guidance come and talk about career management, spend 2 hours of valuable lesson time on a computer website that makes you fill out 200 questions in order to predict your ‘future’, and then guidance tells you what your most likely job is going to be. I remember that I asked guidance about why the income slider only goes up to 200,000 (me being me :D), and their response is that this is the highest that you can expect to earn in your lifetime, with about 10 years of college and med school ofc.
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<p>I mean, is school meant to groom you to be a docile employee? It sure looks like it, provided that I can’t urinate without permission, I can’t ask questions because teachers ‘do not feel like answering’ (umm hello?), I can’t write what I want to write because I have to cite every 6 words, and you have to write according to a page rubric on how exactly to write. They call it reinforcing the crucial skills of writing composition or something, I call it indoctrination. Another major problem is that history is biased as well, I mean they teach us that we are so great (minus a lot of bad things, tell us communism is bad because it is not capitalism (teachers, you got to show good and bad and let students make the choice -.-) and the like. In addition, guidance is absolutely terrible at planning students futures (ok I am a major pain, however you can do better). They seem to always steer us into college, even telling a kid in our class that wants to go to trade school that it’s a bad idea (face palm). Even talking about ambitious goals, one student wanted to become a self employed website designer, in which he talks about video games and such(much less crazy than my plan), and guidance told him it is a terrible idea, filled with major risk and losses, and it does not offer the security of a college degree. Please, comment on why I should ignore all this, and go to regular school if Harvard or any ivy does not work out, because I can assure you, I see NO benefit.</p>