I came across your site while I was looking for work and yes, I do feel that college as a whole is not as useful as you'd like to beleive. Mind you now, education isn't bad so long as it is pertinent and legitimate. What bothers me is that college has been taken from an institution of learning and understanding and has been deevolved into a commodity. We send hundreds of thousands of recent high school graduates each year to college, lock them up like sardines in questionable living standards, draw anywhere from $6000 - $25000 per year from each of them, and for those who actually graduate, flood the workforce with increasingly worthless degrees. If we are sending more and more of the jobs requiring college degrees out of the USA, why on earth are we trying to send more and more people to college? There are over 250000 engineers out of work in this country as we speak, some who haven't worked in thier field since 2000. If we are only creating 30000 engineering jobs per year nationally, why are we churning out ten times as many graduates in engineering? Considering that many of the other fields are in just as bad or worse condition, is this a viable solution to the rapid inflation of prices in the USA? This is probably why so many are going to college; wages have been stagnant in the USA for about a quarter century. Instead of making the appropriate sacrifices and addressing the problem head on, we turn the whole country into a giant casino! It's just like dieting; you have to make some sacrifices to lose the weight, and it won't happen if you make Burger King and KFC your buddies every other day. Hell I'm only 25 and if I could figure this out, I don't know why the older crowd can't put two and two together since they're partially responsable for the mess our country's in.
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