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looking back, college was a huge fucking waste of time

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hairraiser stage
  09/20/17
Probably could've been condensed into two years that weren't...
Pale Duck-like Coffee Pot Area
  09/20/17
fun but post-college life > college life
marvelous telephone
  09/20/17
(Guy who was a friendless virgin through college)
Adventurous blathering trailer park
  09/20/17
What did you major in? It is a good experience but agree tha...
Passionate coiffed cruise ship
  09/20/17
It was much easier than HS too. Mostly coasting with a few d...
Rusted sticky range prole
  09/20/17
It was so great back before the stupid colleges made teacher...
mahogany histrionic new version
  09/20/17
major and type of school?
Walnut Overrated Incel Generalized Bond
  09/20/17
totally it's tragic that we were born into this limbo perio...
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Diverse magenta nursing home
  09/20/17
worst mistake I ever made
bateful stage
  09/20/17
what would you have done instead
Free-loading Becky
  09/20/17
rock and roll or auto repair
bateful stage
  09/20/17
could have done both!
Free-loading Becky
  09/20/17
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charcoal charismatic whorehouse
  09/20/17
(Peter Thiel)
Exhilarant Henna Cuckoldry Institution
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I don't call coming home from class at 1pm, playing Goldeney...
Jet multi-colored sanctuary dysfunction
  09/20/17
you have to keep in mind that NOWAGS didn't have fun, party ...
Adventurous blathering trailer park
  09/20/17
(chad)
bateful stage
  09/20/17
Men before us fought in wars, worked the land and impregnate...
Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse
  09/20/17
True. But given the choice, they probably would have preferr...
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Jet multi-colored sanctuary dysfunction
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Motley factory reset button
  09/20/17
this is so dumb fuck this "meme"
Free-loading Becky
  09/20/17
That was literally my great grandfather.
Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse
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Aggressive lodge french chef
  09/20/17
From the perspective of preparing you for a job, etc. -- yea...
alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic
  09/20/17
college was 180. Just that I wasn't ready to have to auto...
Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
yep
Free-loading Becky
  09/20/17
I thought it was cool. Meet people from across the country w...
fantasy-prone fragrant shitlib
  09/20/17
3 weeks into working and I feel like this
Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
Its an enjoyable way to spend 4 years but its not margina...
violent carnelian pit
  09/20/17
Perfect time to take a 4 year vacation. Do it when you are y...
alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic
  09/20/17
because time and energy are finite because your window to...
violent carnelian pit
  09/20/17
OK. Huge waste of time for strivers. Great time for lazy bas...
alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic
  09/20/17
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Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
lol the thing is, you don't actually learn all that much
violent carnelian pit
  09/20/17
I am from a working class background, went to a working clas...
alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic
  09/20/17
I mean, I learned a lot too but relative to what I could ...
violent carnelian pit
  09/20/17
People that could actually find balance between being lazy a...
Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
call me a striver if you want (though actually that's pretty...
violent carnelian pit
  09/20/17
I mean b/c i flunked out I ended up having to spend 20K at a...
Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
I don't see my high school graduate self as being ready for ...
fantasy-prone fragrant shitlib
  09/20/17
Of course XO hates college.
ebony church
  09/20/17
in an age when Clemson enrolls people with Downs Syndrome, w...
Narrow-minded Toilet Seat
  09/20/17
yeah if you go to a TTT like Clemson you're fucked but a non...
Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace
  09/20/17
Money grab for boomer admins saddling kids with hundreds of ...
Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse
  09/20/17
If you don't have a group of lifelong friends that you made ...
Motley factory reset button
  09/20/17
fun time but a total waste of money
mewling newt mood
  09/20/17


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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:17 AM
Author: hairraiser stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248822)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:21 AM
Author: Pale Duck-like Coffee Pot Area

Probably could've been condensed into two years that weren't a waste of time but mostly yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248829)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:22 AM
Author: marvelous telephone

fun but post-college life > college life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248831)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:15 AM
Author: Adventurous blathering trailer park

(Guy who was a friendless virgin through college)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249836)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:30 AM
Author: Passionate coiffed cruise ship

What did you major in? It is a good experience but agree that 4 years and the amount of money it costs is way too much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248845)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 3:13 AM
Author: Rusted sticky range prole

It was much easier than HS too. Mostly coasting with a few days of stress per semester

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248920)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 4:07 AM
Author: mahogany histrionic new version

It was so great back before the stupid colleges made teachers start taking attendance. I'd be sitting in my apartment in a haze, some green rolled up on my "Contemporary Social Issues" textbook and be like "oh fuck was there an exam or something in my comparative politics class"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248986)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:14 AM
Author: Walnut Overrated Incel Generalized Bond

major and type of school?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249834)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 3:15 AM
Author: Odious painfully honest rigor

totally

it's tragic that we were born into this limbo period, when people are beginning to realize that college is a scam, but it's still socially unacceptable NOT to have gone to college.

it's a disaster. we are in an in-between period re: a lot of issues, college is just one of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248925)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 4:11 AM
Author: garnet library milk



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34248992)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:13 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal saffron faggotry blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249826)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:16 AM
Author: Walnut Overrated Incel Generalized Bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249849)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:17 AM
Author: Free-loading Becky



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249854)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:18 AM
Author: vibrant honey-headed therapy corn cake



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:20 AM
Author: chartreuse public bath jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249876)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:29 AM
Author: slimy den



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249930)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:29 AM
Author: Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249931)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:34 AM
Author: Bat shit crazy lay legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249969)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 7:09 PM
Author: Pea-brained mentally impaired kitchen filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34254182)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 7:11 PM
Author: Diverse magenta nursing home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34254204)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:14 AM
Author: bateful stage

worst mistake I ever made

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249831)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:15 AM
Author: Free-loading Becky

what would you have done instead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249846)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:29 AM
Author: bateful stage

rock and roll or auto repair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249929)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:30 AM
Author: Free-loading Becky

could have done both!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249939)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:01 AM
Author: charcoal charismatic whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250164)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:15 AM
Author: Exhilarant Henna Cuckoldry Institution

(Peter Thiel)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249844)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:19 AM
Author: Jet multi-colored sanctuary dysfunction

I don't call coming home from class at 1pm, playing Goldeneye until dinner with my bros, then going out drinking with hot chicks, day after day, a waste of time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249866)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:28 AM
Author: Adventurous blathering trailer park

you have to keep in mind that NOWAGS didn't have fun, party or sleep with girls in college. They actually went to class then spent the rest of the time studying and on the internet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249926)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:29 AM
Author: bateful stage

(chad)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249932)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse

Men before us fought in wars, worked the land and impregnated their high school girl friends 5-10 times before the age I finished my post grad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249941)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:32 AM
Author: alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic

True. But given the choice, they probably would have preferred drinking with hot chicks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249950)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:05 PM
Author: Jet multi-colored sanctuary dysfunction



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250543)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:46 PM
Author: Motley factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34251864)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:36 AM
Author: Free-loading Becky

this is so dumb

fuck this "meme"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249982)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:42 AM
Author: Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse

That was literally my great grandfather.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250015)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:07 PM
Author: Aggressive lodge french chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250559)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:31 AM
Author: alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic

From the perspective of preparing you for a job, etc. -- yeah, probably. But for me it was very beneficial socially and intellectually. If I could relive any four year period of my life, it would be undergrad years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249942)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:32 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace

college was 180.

Just that I wasn't ready to have to autonomy yet, and I never went to any classes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249949)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:37 AM
Author: Free-loading Becky

yep

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249988)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:36 AM
Author: fantasy-prone fragrant shitlib

I thought it was cool. Meet people from across the country with different backgrounds, interests, and skills. Push yourself intellectually in different and interesting subjects. Have lots of free time to party, socialize, date, exercise, learn new hobbies etc. The cost is outrageous (especially if you're taking out loans) but if parents are able to foot the bill without too much trouble it's a grand time. When are you going to have that kind of schedule again?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249981)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:37 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace

3 weeks into working and I feel like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34249989)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:55 AM
Author: violent carnelian pit

Its an enjoyable way to spend 4 years

but its not marginally useful towards the next 40 years of your life,

its a waste of your material resources, its a waste of your most energetic timeframe, it teaches you terrible life habits

its a vacation, taking a 4 year vacation when you're 18 and have no accumulated resources is dumb

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250107)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:57 AM
Author: alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic

Perfect time to take a 4 year vacation. Do it when you are young. Why is it preferable to go into the working world right away?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250134)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:02 AM
Author: violent carnelian pit

because time and energy are finite

because your window to take large career risks is finite

because first mover advantages tend to be large

because early advantages compound

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250167)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:03 AM
Author: alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic

OK. Huge waste of time for strivers. Great time for lazy bastards who want to have fun and learn something other than business jargon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250176)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:04 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250181)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:12 AM
Author: violent carnelian pit

lol

the thing is, you don't actually learn all that much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250232)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:15 AM
Author: alcoholic hyperventilating address psychic

I am from a working class background, went to a working class Catholic High School. I am sure a lot of people didn't learn a lot in college, but I did. Was always "smart" but never intellectually curious.

I didn't approach college as a trade school, which I am sure my parents weren't happy about.

[EDIT] if you mean you don't learn much how to succeed in business, I agree with that.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250245)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:22 AM
Author: violent carnelian pit

I mean, I learned a lot too

but relative to what I could have learned had I intentionally accelerated my learning and tried to maximize around learning as much as I could,

instead of maximizing around having a good GPA and still having a lot of free time to screw around

it wasn't actually that much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250298)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:06 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace

People that could actually find balance between being lazy and striving when needed (aka actually turning in papers on time) at my UG are mostly doing well, making a lot more than me and having a lot of fun.

Yes, for strivers it sucks. But fuck that shit.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250191)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:18 AM
Author: violent carnelian pit

call me a striver if you want (though actually that's pretty laughable)

but its actually a really shitty feedback system

the pace of turning everything in on time tricks you into think you're doing well at life, in reality, you're working at a far slower pace than you need to make just about anything else work in life

Its actually a really shitty habit to get into thinking that that's a good pace to go through life at

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250266)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:25 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace

I mean b/c i flunked out I ended up having to spend 20K at a out of state flagship for 1 year, but otherwise my UG would've been mad cheap so I'll take this 4 year (ended up being 7 years but w/e) vacation.

THe thing is, the 4 years of nopay sets you up better than nocollege for not only HYP but id say for most top 50 schools if you can do something worthwhile like coding etc.

(Humanities in ivies can get you into finance etc though which is why it was 180)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250315)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:20 AM
Author: fantasy-prone fragrant shitlib

I don't see my high school graduate self as being ready for the workforce (at least the white-collar workforce). College is a nice and comfortable way to turn people into intellectually curious citizens and decent workers. It's probably not the most efficient way to do it, but I don't see any alternative right now. I think the cost is the bigger issue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250282)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:19 AM
Author: ebony church

Of course XO hates college.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250272)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:27 AM
Author: Narrow-minded Toilet Seat

in an age when Clemson enrolls people with Downs Syndrome, what does a college degree in non-STEM signify?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250321)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 11:28 AM
Author: Wonderful Impertinent Police Squad Electric Furnace

yeah if you go to a TTT like Clemson you're fucked but a non-STEMmos I know from HYP are doing a lot better than lolyers (except me)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250325)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 12:11 PM
Author: Nighttime lime philosopher-king crackhouse

Money grab for boomer admins saddling kids with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for the privilege of learning how evil our country is, but little else in terms of practical knowledge. It was fine when we lived off the spoils of ww2 but now it's an incredible indulgence, and one that's extended on borrowed time as other nations will soon be eating our lunch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34250578)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:57 PM
Author: Motley factory reset button

If you don't have a group of lifelong friends that you made in college, that i) make you happy whenever you hear from them/see them, ii) that you could call when you are having a shitty moment in your life and talk to them about it, and iii) who have a positive opinion of you and your character that you seek to maintain (i.e. it would be very embarrassing to talk to them and tell them that you e.g. got fired because you were caught being dishonest/immoral, cheated on your wife and are getting divorced, etc.), then you did college wrong. I didn't make most of my college friends that are this level of friendship until pretty late in the game (basically Junior year), and it transformed college from being pointless and completely focused on trying to fuck girls into being one of the most crucial turning points of my life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34251948)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:58 PM
Author: mewling newt mood

fun time but a total waste of money

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737277&forum_id=2#34251962)