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bless your heart

[quote=fradddd]My dad went to Stanford, and he says that if he could do it again he'd just go to San Jose State (an okay school) because it's cheaper...

We go through ~18 years of schooling (including college) so that we can write "Bachelor's in whatever-the-hell" on a freakin' resume. And it's still hard to find jobs. I bet that 50% (or more) of my graduating class will end up making more money than the top 20 students in my class, simply because school does pretty much nothing to help you past 2nd grade.

Anyone can start a business if they have ideas and aren't stupid, and those are some of the most successful people in the world.[/quote]
If you pick the right major it isn't hard to find jobs. i.e. don't do liberal arts, don't major in your passion. Done, you should get a job no problem.

And starting a business isn't easy at all, less than 2% of ventures actually end up being profitable and go public.

My dad went to Stanford, and he says that if he could do it again he'd just go to San Jose State (an okay school) because it's cheaper...

We go through ~18 years of schooling (including college) so that we can write "Bachelor's in whatever-the-hell" on a freakin' resume. And it's still hard to find jobs. I bet that 50% (or more) of my graduating class will end up making more money than the top 20 students in my class, simply because school does pretty much nothing to help you past 2nd grade.

Anyone can start a business if they have ideas and aren't stupid, and those are some of the most successful people in the world.

@Omegathorion: but in the end, what am I supposed to do about it? I'm forced down this path regardless. The thing I want to pursue makes no money, or it's way too much schooling which I'm already dreading.

[quote=VMAs]Killing myself daily because I wasn't the one who made the decision to go to college. I'm a second year university student and am pursuing something I don't even enjoy just to satisfy my what my parents find to be their type of happiness. I still don't know what I want to do personally. Someone reassure me that everything'll be okay. [/quote]
Hey, on the bright side, at least you're already AWARE of all that.

There are some people who go through college, get their degree, and spend a few years working in their industry before they realize that they hate their job.

This is more for the people who stress only about grades and GPA and such.

However, there are others who follow this advice also, and forget that grades still have a significant impact on them. Sure you might "discover yourself" and or "try new things". But if you have terrible grades and GPA, you're not going to get into the college you want (unless it's a community college).

There's a balance.

it doesn't matter where you go to college if you're using it as a stepping stone for something higher than a bachelor's degree. the caveat to this is not to enroll in a for-profit university (devry, university of phoenix) because no one will recognize your degree for any worth.

Killing myself daily because I wasn't the one who made the decision to go to college. I'm a second year university student and am pursuing something I don't even enjoy just to satisfy my what my parents find to be their type of happiness. I still don't know what I want to do personally. Someone reassure me that everything'll be okay.

Well it's true in some ways. It's true for the arts where going to a top tier research school -- which is what the lists are based off of -- would probably not matter that much. In fact a liberal arts school may even be better for those needs (if you are going into liberal arts). If you are going into design or arts, maybe you should go to an art focused school if you want to go into an art focused career. Now if you want to go into engineering, the hard sciences, many soft sciences (namely psych, econ(?), and others), then perhaps this is not too true. Then maybe you do want to get into a top-tier school so you can learn more and then build connections to professors and recruiters that the professors may even know.

This isn't true for computer science though. Employers do care about where you are from and then the schools that are more tech central have more job fairs and recruiting opportunities (i.e. a University of California vs a Cal State, UC's have far more tech job fairs). Still, in many top companies people hire people from what judgmental people would call "no name" schools and certainly interview them. They care more about your skillset, what projects you have done on your own, and your eagerness to learn the newest technologies like js libraries (angular, d3), hadoop, nosql, etc.

Then again even if you go to an Ivy and only party you may not amount to much after anyway... so again it all depends on what you do.

Let's be honest. People would probably hire a person from an Ivy league school compared to a small city college.

[quote=sparkshooter]Yeah, okay. High school grades and the college you go to are still important.[/quote]

also the budget-related resources available for any good public vs private schools differ greatly.

That being said, a college name can increase your chance of landing an interview. The rest is up to your own skills.

Anyways, most people don't feel inferior because they're dumb or something. The problem is that they aren't trying as much as they could. And it's the people who try hard and do well and care a lot that make the rest of us look and feel bad about ourselves.

Senior year is still a really fun year, once you've accepted a college.

[quote=FallenLink]What if i'm a dropout? ;-;[/quote]

[url=http://hersheywrites.tumblr.com/post/112324929821/please-remind-your-friends-that-did-not-or-could] Then this post is for you. [/url]

Yeah, okay. High school grades and the college you go to are still important.

i dont remember anything abt high school except that jr prom was a waste of money and i dissected a shark

What if i'm a dropout? ;-;

live ur life...yolo