After 11 years of attending college (I dropped out three times and spent a few semesters part-time) I finally earned my Baccalaureate degree last December. All I really have to show for it is a shelf full of books I was unable to sell back to the college bookstore that I’ll never read, a dozen or so notebooks whose few remaining unused pages serve as a memo pad and a shitload of debt.
I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly practical person, but choosing to attend college forced me to make some fairly impractical decisions. For example, attending classes full-time made it absolutely impossible to work full-time; my grades suffered the few times I did attempt to do so. As a result, I could only search for part-time employment and passed up several promising full-time positions. (more…)
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