<p>QC - get over yourself, get the degree, and start making money. Work is not fun, that is why it is called ‘work’. Those loans are not going to pay themselves ($16K for a year?) and once you quit, you will be unable to defer payments.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to the people who say you are the problem. The school system is another way for the government to indoctrinate, brainwash, and hoard money and colleges exist to reinforce social hierarchies.</p>
<p>Prothero you are mad. In any system that has anything to do with money there will be people looking to make a little extra for themselves. However, that says nothing about the value of education. I can’t even understand how you think getting an education is brainwashing… people like you are exactly the reason why everyone needs to be educated.</p>
<p>As for the OP, I suggest you talk to someone who cares. Obviously your parents don’t, probably most people won’t want to hear you whine, but I read a good suggestion in one of the posts saying you should talk to a guidance counselor. Depending on your discipline/major/school, they can be more or less understanding in situations like this (for example, if you were in engineering you’d better ■■■■, they’re not fans of fooling around). You really should talk to someone about this, and counselors are there and it’s their job to help students in times of need.</p>
<p>Personally, you won’t find a job and have a good life regardless if you get the degree or not with your current attitude. That being said, you may have a chance in perspective and once that happens you will be very sorry you gave up with such little time to go. If you find that something tickles your fancy in the future, you can apply to graduate school. Of course you don’t care now, but you know that you will care in the future and letting this absurd attitude overcome you will lead you down a long and dark path to self destruction and misery. Like someone said, we all lose our focus and our drive once in a while in everything, whether that is a subject, a sport, a relationship, for one reason or another. Think about marriage; a lot of people, regardless of whether they’re ‘in love’ or not, must work to keep it healthy. I think you’ll find the same applies to other areas in life as well.</p>
<p>If you let yourself do this, it’ll be really hard to come back to reality. Don’t **** yourself.</p>
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<p>I’ll say it again, education is an efficient way to indoctrinate and brainwash children and colleges purpose is to enforce the status quo. You are mad, and you are brainwashed.</p>
<p>Prothero… please explain to me how education brainwashes people. Specifically, enlighten me on how aspects of mathematics, science and literature do NOT teach students problem solving and critical thinking skills that will make them valuable members of society.</p>
<p>Watch the harsh rhetoric, people. The OP is asking for help. </p>
<p>I would urge you to get some counseling so as to work out what is authentic indifference and what might be clinical depression.</p>
<p>And true enough that a college degree is not necessarily going to lead to employment, ideal employment, or even employment related to one’s degree.</p>
<p>Allen Bloom, in the Closing of the American Mind, talks about how worthless college is for most people, that there are a glut of us lawyers/doctors/engineers/MBA (heck I currently know a Tuck MBA and a Wharton MBA who are not working glamorous jobs, but jobs they could have secured without a degree!) but that engaging a competent electrician/plumber/contractor/tile setter is next to impossible. </p>
<p>And I’m not convinced that it serves you to do a mediocre and unhappy job of it in college, right now, debt or no debt. Maybe, some time off would help you ferret out what you want to do with your life, give you an accidental exposure to something that works for you.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to the harsh and punitive voices on College Confidential. I wish you luck and happiness.</p>
<p>@OP: Seriously get over yourself and finish college. America has financial problems because of people like you. If you don’t care about getting a job and want to sit around all day then I, along with the rest of the American population that works, will have to suffer the consequences by paying the government more taxes so they can give welfare to lazy people like you. And when people like you don’t care about paying the loans back, the bank gets screwed over which will eventually require a financial bailout (I honestly won’t be surprised if the increasing student debt leads to another bailout). And that bailout money won’t magically appear or be brought by the bailout fairy…it’s gonna be OUR tax money. Many of the people under the poverty line suffer from a lack of motivation…its their fault they are there, and the rest of us have to pay taxes to help out their lazy *ss. </p>
<p>Lack of motivation isn’t an excuse. I’m sure many people want to sit around and do nothing, but you still see them continue studying or working. It’s just one more year, and its not like a full time job is more fun than college.</p>
<p>Wow, sounds like the world will end, or at least America will fail if you quit school. Reason enough to stay.</p>
<p>Finding something your passionate about makes life so much easier. However, quitting on life in general won’t help you find anything. Yes you can afford to take time off, and yes doing so increases the risk that you will never finish college. But in the end it still comes down to: What do you want? </p>
<p>With the world at risk ;-), perhaps it’s time to talk to a counselor. Find out what your options are. Also look over your academic history and see if there is an instructor whose opinion you might value, and ask for help. The sound bites we post here can only go so far.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I forgot to add this:</p>
<p>We are all responsible for our successes and failures.</p>
<p>You’ve gotten some really good advice so far. You need to stay in school, for the opportunities, for the financial investment already made, and for the degree. So what if you’re burned out at the end of it? Take a year or more off then to travel. Consider joining the Peace Corps or something where you’re being put to work and making a difference. </p>
<p>It honestly sounds like you’re suffering from depression; it may be time to just talk to a counselor or a psychiatrist…just the fact that you’re asking for help here is the first step; however, it’s hard to get the full story and display emotions through text. I’d really, really suggest you talk with someone who will encourage you to do the “right” thing. </p>
<p>There has to be SOMETHING you’re interested in…find it! Music, art, sports, reading, writing, thinking? For me, it’s astronomy. I’m about to go through 4 years of engineering school, and I’ve promised myself that I won’t quit; if I really decide that engineering is not for me, then I’ll change a major but not quit.</p>
<p>Did you enjoy high school? I personally hated almost every moment of it, but I still stayed in school. Obviously you toughed it out too…what’s another year or two going to do in the grand scheme of things. If you quit then decided 15 years from now that you don’t like working at Macys cash register, then it’d be a LOT tougher to get those last few classes done than it would be now.</p>
<p>lol@theespys69, sounds like not wanting to be a slave is apparently bad for america.</p>
<p>Hmmmm so lacking motivation and not wanting to school somehow means the OP has emotional problems…</p>
<p>16k is no light debt to tack on for a year - but I’d finish the BA and get your degree.</p>
<p>It’s just a year, and you’ll probably be more productive in ‘finding yourself’ or what you want to do while busy with courses than while unemployed and having nothing to do. Sounds unusual but its true.</p>
<p>It’s just that most people I know who have dropped out or taken a break have never returned. And, fair or unfair, rational or not, a BA seems like the minimum for most jobs these days. Unless you want to start your own business or be a bartender for a long time, I’d stick it out.</p>
<p>Also, something I forgot to mention. You will be wasting all the money you’ve taken on right now by not finishing up. Not only will it be hard in the future to go back, but you may even have to start all over again (most colleges have policies like this).</p>
<p>And I see that Prothero is only interested in spewing random crap and not backing up his assertions…</p>
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<p>I can’t argue with anyone whose response is “You are wrong” and “You are mad”. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>Because you are screwing with people by saying outlandish things. I know it’s popular to speak out against social norms, but your claims ought to be paired with a solid explanation (especially if requested).</p>
<p>If you can’t back it up, don’t say it.</p>
<p>I don’t need to back up anything if I don’t want to. Seriously get off your high horse.
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I stated education is a separator for the status quo and a way for children to be indoctrinated. If you can’t understand that fine but there is no reason to start a fit about it.</p>
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<p>I’m sure the OP already knows most of Hadsed’s posts are completely useless but wanted to add this is very bad advice. </p>
<p>Find out what you want to do and where you want to go first, don’t start taking out more loans because someone on a forum told you</p>
<p>High horse? What are you talking about? You can’t even explain your ridiculous comments yet you call my posts useless?</p>
<p>Check policies at universities, I will guarantee you will find that they will not accept credit towards a degree if it was completed over a certain amount of years.</p>
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<p>Wait, so… desiring the use of reason is being on a high horse? I guess I just can’t understand that since I was indoctrinated into believing that using reason and making sense are good things.</p>