Post #2: The Blog Strikes Back

   So, I've come to realize college is a middle man. The middle man between going to school you're required to by law and making money in the real world. Four years, give my piece of paper so I can show it to all these fancy little companies, now give me some money. If you can somehow skip the middle man and go straight to the money making part, that would seem most optimal, right? Plenty of people have done it. Bill Gates left college to start a software writing company. Michael Dell actually ran a computer building company from his dorm room. Mark Zuckerberg left college to create this tiny little website called Facebook. The many rock stars that skipped college to write music and go on tour and become ridiculously famous. We know how all those stories end. You just have to figure out, what's that next million dollar idea? What can I do, that other people want, that they will buy, that doesn't involve me spending 80,000 dollars at a place where I'm not even sure I want to be?
   Now sure, I see the arguments. These people all did something they were extremely passionate about. Even before it made them money, they were living, eating, and breathing the very thing that made them famous. And no matter how hard I think, I just can't seem to discover anything I'm that dedicated to. These people also met the people that went on to help them to become famous in the college setting. So, if they hadn't gone to college and met the people they did, would they still be as famous as they are today? The college campus can be a breeding ground for intellectualism, creativity, and innovation. But it's just so damn expensive. I currently have no idea what I'm doing after college. Give me my piece of paper and I'll be on my way. Funnily enough, while I know that professors are important, we still get all our knowledge essentially from the textbooks. Like Will Hunting would say, "You're spending eighty thousand dollars on an education I could be getting for twenty bucks in late fees down at the local library!" (adjusted for inflation)   
   Now, while I know I'll probably end up working for the man one of these days, with my Economics degree and my math minor, I'll take solace in the fact that one time I used to think like this and was ballsy enough to post it on the internet.

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