<p>This is a hypothetical situation.</p>
<p>Would you be happy if you could skip college entirely to have a high-paying job with endless opportunity for advancement? You will be educating yourself through books instead, so you will have no undergraduate college experience (no opportunity to be in undergraduate clubs, no contact with professors, no research with scholars). You can assert college-level or post-college-level academic ability through passing the college equivalent of the GED.</p>
<p>No. I don't want to waste my brainz yo.</p>
<p>I like the routine of waking up and attending class and learning about things I like. I think most people would say "LOL ID LUV 2 SKIP COLEGE AND B RICH" but one day they'd wake up and realize they missed out on learning.</p>
<p>Even still, who hires someone through learning by books alone? How would a company gauge your skills if a school didn't hand you grades and a diploma? This question is beyond hypothetical.</p>
<p>In any case, I say no. I love school.</p>
<p>Yeah dude, college is fun. There's more to life than just making money. Who are ya gonna party with???</p>
<p>bad idea. Becoming a smarter person should be strived for everyday. Always learn stuff, and u might as well learn alot when ur young cause ur gonna forget new things when ur older a lot more easily</p>
<p>Why do you think those 30/40 year old people go to community college?</p>
<p>Cause they realized that higher education really is the best thing.</p>
<p>Even if just for job advancement, getting a degree is highly recommended. Of course, there are certain other ways in life, such as becoming a celebrity. Then who the eff cares if you got a degree. No one cares if you've got the IQ of a goat, as long as you look good or do something entertaining very well.</p>
<p>I disagree and think it could be a very good thing. If I had the discipline, I would rather teach myself through books. Yeah, college is fun- but a lot of the experiences I get from college could be duplicated if I wasn't in college. In fact, almost all of them.</p>
<p>I don't know that I feel this would be a bad idea for all people, but I wouldn't want to do it. I'd miss out on so many other opportunities (study abroad, living in a different area of the country, internships, etc.) that I would find difficult to replicate. I also don't think that is this opportunity were presented to me my senior year in high school, that I could have made a decision as to what career I'd like to pursue without having any regrets later. </p>
<p>Besides, I want to become a professor, so it would be pretty bad for business if I had no one to teach :(</p>
<p>dood i love being a student! i dread the day if i ever get a real job where i got tot wear a suit to work or something.</p>
<p>I definitely want to go to college. even if I knew I'd end up in the exact same place with or without it I'd still want to go.</p>
<p>For me, college is more about the experience than about finding a good job afterwards. So absolutely not.</p>
<p>It's a great choice. It's called getting a trade and becoming good at it. Master tradesmen make six figures.</p>
<p>The "college experience" is a glorified faux right of passage that America perpetuates to over education its population. It's not that great, and it's not that important. If you can get a great job with flexibility it will always trounce four years of little responsibility, drinking , and generally learning information you'll never use after you become sober. Furthermore, you'll actually go into life without having thousands upon thousands of dollars weighing you down.</p>
<p>Seems like a good idea to me.</p>
<p>To be honest, there are many paths a person can take in life, if you can skip college and somehow find a way to become rich and happy, go for it, besides a person with that much wealth can always go back and learn a little more. The larger loss is the "college experience," but the gains should be able to make it up, unless someone <em>hypothetically</em> also knew you would be at the same spot after colllege also, then that would open up debate of the experience gain and knowledge learned is enough to justify the extra cost.</p>
<p>Ok that just really confusing above. There' alot of factors. Just don't forget college isn't the be all and end all that have a gaurantee to set a person for life just because you get a degree even from Harvard.</p>
<p>Milleniums ago, our ancestors did not go to college, but they were able to make the human race the most dominant species on this planet. </p>
<p>College is a cultural thing; learning is a personal thing.</p>
<p>You can't make a blanket statement for everyone whether they should go to college or not. I wouldn't take the scenario you described, but it would be best for many people.</p>
<p>College isn't an "experience were u drink and party n stuff lul," but rather where you learn for your future job.</p>
<p>Too many people spend too much time on the peripheral garbage like getting laid and skipping class because they are drunk and want to get drunk the next night.</p>
<p>are you kidding me?</p>
<p>hell no i wouldn't go to college if i was guaranteed to be financially secure after high school.</p>
<p>im not naturally gravitated towards doing homework and stuff. the only reason im in school is so that i can survive.</p>
<p>i would rather spend my time traveling the world and learning about different cultures and people first hand.</p>
<p>screw all of this studying nose in books b.s.</p>
<p>The purpose of going to college should be to expand your knowledge base, not to get a job. I can't speak for anyone else, but if I just wanted a job, I would have gone to trade school, gotten certified in two or three years, and have a decent paying job by now.</p>
<p>If you need college to expand your knowledge base, you have a severe personal problem.</p>
<p>I think it's wise to not go if you are 100% sure that you can get a decent job without college and that you are truly not college material. Many are not cut out for college and it would be a waste of time and money to go.</p>
<p>College isn't for everyone, but I'd still never have skipped it. When I started, my dad pointed out something about how, for at least four entire school years, my only real responsibility in the world, and the only thing really expected of me, would be learning. He went on for awhile about how that was so unique in life, and to enjoy it, and take advantage of it, and other typical dad stuff. But really, it is a cool concept :)</p>