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Hate College? Here’s A List Of Alternatives
“College isn’t for everyone” — Too Many People To Credit
I’m one of those people. I firmly hold the belief that college is not meant for everyone; in fact, I don’t personally see a lot of intrinsic value from college for most everyone. With millennials being the most educated generation in history and also the most underpaid, it seems like the statistics agree with me on this one. The proportionate price of college has increased dramatically, even when considering inflation of the US dollar. A college degree is becoming less impressive and more a “norm” in modern society. It’s also been proven that college has become easier than it was in previous years.
I Despised College
Nothing felt worse than college to me. I remember going through all of highschool looking at college as the bastion of knowledge where I’d go to learn the things that truly mattered in my life. To say I was disappointed by college would be the largest understatement of my life. My hopes were utterly demolished, shattered, and ruined by what college had to offer. It could not have been any worse.
I went to college to learn new things that would help me to become a better software engineer. What I learned instead were the exact same things I learned in high school for the first two years which was swiftly followed by programming classes that never passed what I learned as a 12-year-old just getting into JavaScript.
We began our Intro to Visual Basic course by writing a simple “Hello, World” program like all great intro to programming courses do. The issue is not that it started in that way but rather that the final thing we covered in a three-month class were while loops. There’s no bigger let down than to waste three months learning absolutely nothing. It was around this time that I decided to begin looking into alternatives; that’s where Lambda School came into play.
Don’t take what I’m saying as a way of discouraging you from attending college if that’s what you planned on doing. You should still do that if it’s something you believe…
