The Four Most Important Questions When Choosing a College

How do you decide which college is right for you? Steven Mercer shares four key questions to ask to find the best fit. [Show ID: 36469]

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[JW-rmci]

People don’t NEED to go to college (but recommended) as it’s generally:
- overpriced (lots of content available on internet)
- overhyped (many other alternate avenues)
- pragmatically irrelevant / useless
- not truly tailored to your individual needs
- presumptuous (borderline neglectful) that you're OK, enjoying your studies, part of a community, have uni friends
- a corporation that will probably ask you for money/donations as alumni when they never really provided mentoring and networking for 1st year.

UNLESS you actually plan to directly use the skills developed for your working career (especially for medicine and certain Master level studies). College is primarily for earning money, and secondarily for personal interest. Do the least study that you need for the most gain.

College used to be for wisdom / philosophy / sophia / eudaimonia / human flourishing / classical arts but nowadays it’s mainly for skills and knowledge development in order to primarily earn money and secondarily for personal improvement or human “progress” (whatever that means).

(I’ve got 2 bachelors, 2 master degrees, withdrew from a PhD, studied across 5 different Universities, and come from a family with PhDs. If I could go back in time I'd have skipped uni, saved 75k, and do freelance writing/content creation).

Just don't waste your time and money because you will eventually approach death and look back if uni helped or hindered (and realise that uni is significantly unimportant in and of itself relative to other important aspects of life). Obviously for many (but not the majority), uni is incredibly and positively impactful; this is ideal and advocated for.

[ignazs.]

Additional questions : How expensive is it? How worthless is my major? How much debt will I accrue? How much indoctrination will I endure?

[pratimputatunda]

1. How left wing is it? 2. How left wing is it? 3. How left wing is it? 4. How left wing is it? (Left Wing Brainwashing is out of control around the world!)