What fucked you up more: going to college or not going to college?
Parents wasting money on five vehicles instead of anything meaningful
both. 18-25 is purgatory. highly interesting at times, but in essence, purgatory
Dropping out of college
The former.
R-Rose?
Well this question is a bit fucked. Because the very premise of this question assumes that I am a duplicitous entity that has both
A. Gone to college
and
B. Not gone to college
Then you ask me which of those two things fucked me up more? I guess I'm just glad I'm not as fucked up as you, OP shit-ass.
Not going. No memery either, it was easily my biggest mistake. I could have gotten into a top 20 school no problem. Instead I did the whole "self education" thing...basically wasted nearly a decade working in horrible trades jobs with a bunch of beaners and white methheads, then when to a bunch of coding bootcamps and shit and learned how to program. I have an okay job now, but I will never ever make the big bucks or be a candidate for management. I feel old as shit at 34 and the thought of going back to college horrifies me at this age. I should have probably even gotten a masters and started my own company by now, but I'm just a wage slave at some no-name piece of shit Boomer company.
I've already easily lost at least a million dollars in wages by not going. I should have spent the $100k and got a degree in software engineering like I was planning on doing and lived like a pauper for a few years while I paid back the debt.
tldr: I'm a retard who fell for the trades meme and ruined my life and pissed away my genetic gifts by selling myself short.
extra tldr: Jow Forums is always wrong. Jow Forums. IS. ALWAYS. WRONG. Everyone here are basement dwelling NEET failures...I don't know why I ever listened to any of you. Pic related: the woman I could have had if I didn't fuck up my life.
Roll for rozie
Not getting a job until things got really bad in my life fucked me up worse than going or not going to college ever did.
Though in a way it proved to be my salvation, though I’m not shitting gold bars every day or living in my childhood home, I still earn a decent keep for my profession. I’ve thought about doing a lot of other things with my skill set but a lot of them butt heads with my core beliefs and would make me nothing but a prime target for ostracizing and ridicule among the people I decided to work for or with.
In the end, I’m still trying to do better for myself and my family. But it’s hard not falling to the temptation of getting loadsa money at the cost of my soul and sanity.
My parents literally sucked me dry till I say I will go the college. In college I'm a autistic 4 Chan browse where rest of the class is Reddit tier soys can't fit in the college and can't dropout from the college. Finally completed the college and still don't know what to do with my life other than being a wage slave. Find your purpose anons if you don't you will also become a wage slave like me. Doing job that I don't like, caring about the people that I don't love and they don't love me. And finally don't be a society cuck just like me.
c. not marrying young
Dropping out of 4 universities, my father doesn’t talk to me anymore.
Mentally, going to college is far more detrimental than not going
Not applicable. I was classically educated; going to college would've been a waste of time. Fortuitous really- college is still a waste of time.
The decision of going to college, it's just a glorified highschool. With 90% of what they teach is useless and wont be used in a job. I should have continued going to tradeschool instead.
it is no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society
Never went to college. Saw it for a trap. Not that it mattered. Im still a failure. Atleast I wont pass debt onto my family.
Went to Dartmouth. Ruined me.
Go to a private majority white college if you actually fucking care about your experience there. At this point in history you're supposed to go to college for a degree and connections. You have the internet and a car, you don't need to befriend the faggot leftists on your campus.
>I could have paid off the debt
No you couldn't.
I thought I was left-leaning until I went to college. Then I realized what 'left' really meant to these idiots. I realized how badly I hated everyone and their bend-over-backwards policies. Seeing them in action even back then just infuriated me. As for education, the only times I have learned anything was when I taught myself. I left when the professors wouldn't stop laughing at the class for being there in the first place.
>beating yourself up like this over a hypothetical scenario
Nah, you were always meant to be a "loser".
Self-hatred of this particular flavor is often more easily found among those that had the highest and most unwarranted opinions about themselves but were harshly confronted with the true extents of their capabilities by the real world. I've met plenty of people like you, average joes ranting impotently about the heights they were supposed to reach if only it hadn't been for this or that.
I don't feel sorry for you, I just want to tell you to get over yourself.
Nice taste in girls, though.
There's always a way, unless you do a meme degree and are by nature, a bit of a thicko
Keep telling yourself that bud
Almost went to a crazy expensive liberal arts fagfest college. Dropped out the day I got dropped off and got a full refund. I tried some classes at a school in my home state but ultimately realized it’s absolutely retarded for women to be in college so I stopped going for good.
Getting caught making bombs.
Don't get caught.
You're a fag.
ouch.
no u
>"My parents didn't buy me useless shit."
free will does not exist, don't be so hard on yourself mate.
Not very high quality, since that appears to be a pyrotech cabinet for making commercial fireworks.
I had an opportunity to go to one of the best grad programs in the world.
I was accepted on case by case, meaning I applied late but they let me in. It had been 3 years since I graduated from my undergrad.
I don't know. I was there for 2 weeks before I just went to admissions and asked to pull out and to put a stop on any loans. Then I never looked back.
School is great if you're fresh out of high school and fuckign stupid. It feels like THE place to be. If you had any exposure or are a little bit realistic, you see it for what it is, its just a big wannabe bohemian playground. Everyone there was there at the leisure of their parents busting their ass. It truly felt toxic to me. I wanted to always surround myself with realistic people, people who carried their own weight and learned from them. It is ironic that I have to go to school eventually if I want to move forward with my career, but I can't even imagine living through that shit.
I utterly despise college students and the college atmosphere. I have no idea if it was any more respectable back in my parents day. But what it is right now is just obscene. So much neglect and pretending. Spending 6figs on knowing false promises.
>I utterly despise college students and the college atmosphere.
I feel the same way... in some cases. But uni was more than worth it for me. If I live long enough, I'll give my parents what they deserve, not just the money I owe them but much more to boot.
Went to college. Ended up dropping out before finishing my degree (history), because I saw it would do nothing for me. Ended up enlisting in the military where I still am, but there's no sort of back-applied loan repayment so now I'm stuck with loans that take like $500 out of my monthly paycheck.
On the flipside, I got to automatically be paygrade E-3? Cool, I saved myself a year and a half waiting for promotion and got (let me math real quick) a whole $3500 more than I would have had I not been E-3 off the bat. Wow, totally worth $55k in debt.
As a 30 yo virgin i regret not going to college, I could have probably gotten a good scholarship to an art college but i was already talented and figured what i could learn from an art college i could learn online, which i did but i never made connections nor built a work ethic, no social support etc. Never applied but if i didnt get a scholarship though i wouldnt have cus i was warned about debt pretty hard.
I went in Ireland for before all the sjw crap caught on there. It was fantastic. Lots of partying and got a comp sci degree too. American college now looks pretty poor. Very expensive and people seem pretty gay.
This. My father blew money instead of putting us in decent schools. The K-12 school you attend is 1000x more important than your college. If you’re smart and have your shit together at 18, you can become an MD/surgeon attending diploma mill colleges.
But if you attend shit K-12 schools full of burnouts with no future it puts you in a big hole. I’ll never forgive my dad for the shit schools he made me attend when we had the money for private.
im 27 and attend college, this is my 2nd year, i attend part time and work but still take out loans to pay for tuition.
Im majoring in math and right now its fucking my shit up.
firstly im not the smartest and was never good in math in high school so i had to teach myself algebra and trig, but i ended up doing very well in the calculus series, passed I, II, and III with B's. Linear Algebra is fucking my shit up though, currently sitting at a LOW C.
But I hope I graduate and am able to find a decent gig making 80k or more.
If not ill be stuck in this warehouse job making 17 an hour which isnt so bad but definitely not what i want to do.
Life is a struggle ATM, i live on my own and pay all my bills so i really have like 50 bucks left over for myself on each paycheck
It depends where you are. Where I live in California public schools arent good but private school is insanely expensive especially if you have more than one kid. I agree with you about early education being more important
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Are you allowed to?