<p>Beta, you’re exactly the kind of kid I’m talking about.</p>
<p>My aunt lives alone in Montana with her dog in a wood cabin in the middle of a forest overlooking a lake. She never finished her college degree, and she works at her town’s center doing clerical work. She’s one of the happiest people I know.</p>
<p>A lot of people are totally forgetting about the internet. It’s entirely possible to live in the middle of the woods and run an internet business / blog/ etc.</p>
<p>A few of my friends either dropped out of college or never went, and a couple are in the military, and they are happy. I want to take time off but decided to graduate early instead of taking a gap year, because if I took time off I would not want to go back to school. People think you need college to make you happy and successful, and it’s not true. School is not as important as people want it to be, it’s a ton of fun but personally I have learned very little at school. I could have learned everything I did without the structure. Sure, you need a degree to do certain things, but formal education is overrated. If people do well on profieciency tests, why do they need a degree? I think if you can do well on the LSAT minus undergrad, that should be fine. Colleges also take advantage of students and overcharge immensely. Some people gain happiness from grades, others don’t. It;s sad that people truly think you need formal education, but those people tend to not have experienced reality.</p>
<p>Bud, you’re always going to find idiots here that will debate with you about your topic.
I see exactly where you are coming from, and I for one once chose not to attend college. Alot of these people here think that they’re smarter or better because they have more degrees than a thermometer. A great deal of the world’s richest and most successful people didn’t attend a university. Going to college for some is sort of a safe guard that gives them a sense of hope that they’ll always be employable.
College (I’m guessing) is more than just the degree, it’s the friends you make and the experience that leads you to the end.
And when it comes to topics like entrepreneurism, you could have 10 degrees in various business subjects, but you can still be a 5H!T businessman.
Being happy is not having a decent pay cheque with the whole brady bunch family thing going there. There’s much more to life.</p>
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<p>Yes and no. </p>
<p>I once seriously cobsidered becoming a mortician (and still think about it occassionally) but I never did figure out if a degree was required. The director of a funeral home I used to work in while in high school said a degree isn’t required. Other people said it is required. Then other-other people said a 2-year is required and then I just said ■■■ it, I’ll do engineering instead. </p>
<p>The point I (attempted bur failed to) make was that if I could have become a mortician without going to college (I never did figure out whether a degree is necessary. But I suspect it is?) I would have. </p>
<p>It’s entirely possible to do well without college. Sometimes it’s just not for everyone.</p>