Without Higher Education you are in a dead end
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#2Just take out 'Higher' and i agree with you.
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#3I get what he's saying. I believe the debt I acquired in college really messed up my life.
But there's also the fact that college is now free in Germany, and that offer is open to Americans. I actively tried to persuade a family member to at least consider Germany as an option. After all, what could be better? Free degree, travel Europe on holidays, no drinking age issues.
She didn't consider it. She's going to a college nobody has ever heard of in the US and spending $45K annually for the privilege. At least I tried :-/
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#4From the man that brought us such classics as “If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans - Ultra Spiritual Life” (https://youtu.be/z0O_VYcsIk8).
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#5I get what he's saying. I believe the debt I acquired in college really messed up my life. But there's also the fact that college is now free in Germany, and that offer is open to Americans. I actively tried to persuade a family member to at least consider Germany as an option. After all, what could be better? Free degree, travel Europe on holidays, no drinking age issues. She didn't consider it. She's going to a col…
Does Germany pay for room and board while studying?
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#6I get what he's saying. I believe the debt I acquired in college really messed up my life. But there's also the fact that college is now free in Germany, and that offer is open to Americans. I actively tried to persuade a family member to at least consider Germany as an option. After all, what could be better? Free degree, travel Europe on holidays, no drinking age issues. She didn't consider it. She's going to a col…
Does Germany pay for room and board while studying?
free means tuition-free. so yes, students have to pay for living expenses, books, etc.
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#8From the man that brought us such classics as “If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans - Ultra Spiritual Life” ( https://youtu.be/z0O_VYcsIk8 ).
I know what I'm writing is kind of superfluous, but not all vegans are like that. There are vegans who try not to disclose the fact of them living vegan.
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#9The decision to attend a private 4-year university has got to count as one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my young life. The 19 weeks I spent in coding bootcamp have been orders-of-magnitude more useful to my career than the 4 years I spent in college. Most people will never know less about life and what they want out of it than they do when they're in high-school. So in my mind it makes no sense to give someone like that the responsibility of a choice that will cost them and their families between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars (depending on whether they choose public vs. private, in-state vs. out-of-state, etc.).
Knowing what I know now, I would have jumped at the chance to study for free in a place like Germany (as per danjoc's comment). That sounds like the perfect way to minimize the costs of what college purports to offer- a chance to broaden one's horizons and investigate possible directions one wants to take with their life.
Re: Without Higher Education you are in a dead end
#10The decision to attend a private 4-year university has got to count as one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my young life. The 19 weeks I spent in coding bootcamp have been orders-of-magnitude more useful to my career than the 4 years I spent in college. Most people will never know less about life and what they want out of it than they do when they're in high-school. So in my mind it makes no sense to give someon…
I think the key phrase here is "young life."
When you get older, read more, travel more, experience more, you'll understand the value of a well-rounded education.
Or maybe not. Perhaps confining yourself to a one-track life and career path will prevent you from seeing, or being considered for, other opportunities in life. You'll never know.