<p>If all I have to look at are their alma maters and their work history, then I’m gonna go with the guy who knows what work (as in professional work, not school work) is.</p>
<p>Besides, all this tends to be moot after your first job or two. After that, employers look at your job history and don’t really give a **** what your college was.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to be obsessed with anything or even join a club. Even if you’re vaguely interested in something, that’s good enough ground to make a friend. I don’t know very much about video games, but I have plenty of friends from the video game club. </p>
<p>If you like academics and don’t want to join an academic club, perhaps you can talk to your fellow classmates about schoolwork or go to the tutoring center and see if they need an extra hand to help.</p>
<p>Raefless - I’m in the same boat. You wouldn’t happen to know who Peter Schiff is do you? If not, youtube “peter schiff college tuition” and click on first link. He talks exactly what you said about how everyone goes to college and it drives down the value of it. And why ironically how at the same time a college degree is worth its all-time low it also costs more than it ever did! I just thought it uncanny how you talked about college just like Peter does.</p>
<p>But yeah, I’m a junior at a real good (large) university. I really just feel like the place is a diploma factory though. I remember growing up and being in high school how we were always fed the propaganda that colleges are places of “higher learning.” Honestly, all I essentially do is teach myself all my classes out of textbooks they assign. Sure, the professors are decent, but they really aren’t challenging me or making me think outside the box. There’s a few hundred kids in a lecture, and we’re all force-fed the same information and do a scantron test every month, it’s exactly like high school. And at least high school was free. I usually get close to a 3.5 gpa, and this is with rather limited studying, there’s no doubt I could get a 4.0 if i really tried. I usually make class, but there really is no point to going most times, there’s no big insights ever into going, usually the professors are just rehashing the textbook. Not to mention in college there still is a lot of busy work. Pretty much all my papers I “********” the night before and still end up with decent grades on them. I don’t really see the point in really writing a great paper because most of the topics or research are just absolute boring and I already know the answers to them.</p>
<p>I guess it just ultimately comes down to what you said - that everyone goes to school now and I just feel like a number, not just at my college but relative to the tens of millions of US college students right now. College has just become another rite of passage, just like high school. I’m glad to have stumbled upon this site and realized that someone else has discovered what’s really going on in this country. You are a very intelligent person. Stay in touch.</p>