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Tuition debt is now larger than credit card debt, what a way to start out in the real world..
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Asante]
#14519512 - 05/27/11 06:42 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Posting so I can watch it later.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Asante]
#14519517 - 05/27/11 06:43 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Im in debt to the hospital (bet that doesnt happen where you live) but luckily I opted not to get credit cards or tuition loans.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14519610 - 05/27/11 07:25 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MisterMuscaria said: Im in debt to the hospital (bet that doesnt happen where you live) but luckily I opted not to get credit cards or tuition loans.
Yay for free health care  Move to Canada!!

And yeah tuition fucking sucks. I am in debt and gonna go into even more dept this fall :'(
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#14519735 - 05/27/11 08:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Anarchy is NOT the way to go.
community college, FTW
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Buckthorn]
#14519781 - 05/27/11 08:23 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Glad you posted this Wiccan.
I was kicked out of school for numerous cannabis violations (living in the East plus bad decisions) but I'm very glad I didn't continue with my "college career".
There are so many fucking retarded people in college it's a shame. The same shit I saw in high school that I thought wouldn't exist in college was WIDELY practiced. Grade buffering, tests being overly easy, teachers not really giving a god damn (although I will say that in my 3 short semesters I had some wonderfully amazing professors; I made sure to almost exclusively pick 5 star rated professors from ratemyprofessor.com though), and just a general lack of real student-based learning going on.
I felt like everyone had the idea that college was a big party and that's EXACTLY what it's become.
I learned so much more sitting on my computer reading shroomery posts, books, and being outside over the last 3 years than I ever did from college.
I will add that I went to highschool with no clear idea of what I wanted to do with my life. I now have a *very* clear idea of *what* I want to do and I know of a number of paths that I could take that would be quite amenable to completing my "goal(s)" here.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Humility]
#14519788 - 05/27/11 08:26 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I wanted to get all my partying behind me before i started college. I also wanted to figure out what I wanted to do.
Im still partying and still havent figured out what I want to do.
The way I see it life is a party
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14519791 - 05/27/11 08:27 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#14519825 - 05/27/11 08:33 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Some of what the video has to say is good. I don't like how he keeps implying that ALL of academia is crooked, though. The bankers are the problem, not the colleges.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: morrowasted]
#14519870 - 05/27/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Interesting video, someone posted it a week ago or so and I watched the whole thing, definitely worth checking out. College textbooks are a blatant total scam! Colleges are businesses, and just like any other business they will want every dollar they can squeeze from your existance.
In the video they do a segment where they had interviewed people who had 6 figure+ type jobs where a majority of them had stated that college education had nothing to do with with the job they had. This is interesting, it didn't explain how they got these jobs. I'm guessing its more who you know than what you know?
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Asante]
#14519934 - 05/27/11 09:10 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cool yeah I watched this a while back. I already figure it out because I left school at 18 and went into work / saved and I'm currently better of than all of my friends who went to university. Most of them can't get jobs and are still in debt. I never thought of it as a conspiracy but I realised it was the case.
Also have you seen The American Dream yet Wiccan?
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/14503817/page/1
I think you'll like it. Its like money is debt but a cartoon with a bit of humour and a bit easier to understand. 
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Rumblefishtwist]
#14519939 - 05/27/11 09:14 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I did a year of college and realized it wasn't for me. It's definitely a harder road to go if you don't have a degree, but it's possible.
I've been self employed for most of my adult life. Right now I own a brick and mortar shop and am about to open a second company geared towards touring musicians.
It's doable. Just decide what you want to do and go out and do it to the best of your ability.
BTW, I am a HUGE fan of apprenticeships. Decide what you want to do and go get a job with someone that does that very well. Even offer to work for minimum wage until you get the skill set. I think it's the best way to learn.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Rumblefishtwist]
#14519948 - 05/27/11 09:17 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Rumblefishtwist said: Interesting video, someone posted it a week ago or so and I watched the whole thing, definitely worth checking out. College textbooks are a blatant total scam! Colleges are businesses, and just like any other business they will want every dollar they can squeeze from your existance.
In the video they do a segment where they had interviewed people who had 6 figure+ type jobs where a majority of them had stated that college education had nothing to do with with the job they had. This is interesting, it didn't explain how they got these jobs. I'm guessing its more who you know than what you know?
it's getting to be that way less and less, as who you know becomes less of a commodity and more a function of what you know
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: nice1]
#14519953 - 05/27/11 09:20 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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good video.
i already knew most of this though. our entire education system is geared towards making kids good test takers... college doesn't make anyone smarter. i hate college. i'm dropping out as soon as i can't afford it without borrowing. i guess i'm just humoring my family.
i've only had a few good teachers. the only point in getting a full degree is to go to grad school so you can work on research projects at a university, cause that's the only place the money is in any particular field
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Buckthorn]
#14520016 - 05/27/11 09:43 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Community colleges are hardly cheaper and I view it as even more of a scam because it seems like the dropout rate is even higher than a four year college. It sucks to see how the books can keep kids from taking the classes they want to take. My calculus book cost ~350 dollars. If I wanted to sell it it another year I couldn't because they already have a new edition.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: scoredon]
#14520106 - 05/27/11 10:23 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I posted this and it got moved and ridiculed.
Glad you re-posted.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: DeadHearts]
#14520151 - 05/27/11 10:36 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Awesome video
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: unam sanctum]
#14520210 - 05/27/11 10:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Education, public, private, even high school is what you make of it. College isn't for everyone, but trying it is the only way to find out. There are ways to avoid incurring stupid amounts of debt getting an education; just like everything else in life. An education is something you have for thew rest of your life. The title of this thread is a fucking joke.
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#14520226 - 05/27/11 10:55 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Koala College, Lesson 1: Watch video before speaking, so as not to sound like arse.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14520228 - 05/27/11 10:56 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MisterMuscaria said: I wanted to get all my partying behind me before i started college. The way I see it life is a party
Yeah man I left all my partying behind me before college. I dont drink anymore, dont do any "hard" drugs, only trip every few months, cut back on weed to just once or twice a day as an enhancement to personal reading.
College is so fun in my opinion , I love being around the professors and having a gigantic library and being able to pick out the smart people in all my classes and becoming friends with them and what not. Im going to Community college right now, gunna go for another 2 years. Then once all the classes I could of cmpleted in a CC are done, im going to transfer and hopefully get a shitton of financial aid.
I want to go into physics.. so there really is no way around college.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Rumblefishtwist]
#14520230 - 05/27/11 10:56 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Rumblefishtwist said: Interesting video, someone posted it a week ago or so and I watched the whole thing, definitely worth checking out. College textbooks are a blatant total scam! Colleges are businesses, and just like any other business they will want every dollar they can squeeze from your existance.
In the video they do a segment where they had interviewed people who had 6 figure+ type jobs where a majority of them had stated that college education had nothing to do with with the job they had. This is interesting, it didn't explain how they got these jobs. I'm guessing its more who you know than what you know?
Nope. In most cases that has absolutely nothing to do with it. Busting your ass does.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: realfuzzhead]
#14520299 - 05/27/11 11:21 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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realfuzzhead said: Yeah man I left all my partying behind me before college. I dont drink anymore, dont do any "hard" drugs, only trip every few months, cut back on weed to just once or twice a day as an enhancement to personal reading.
College is so fun in my opinion , I love being around the professors and having a gigantic library and being able to pick out the smart people in all my classes and becoming friends with them and what not. Im going to Community college right now, gunna go for another 2 years. Then once all the classes I could of cmpleted in a CC are done, im going to transfer and hopefully get a shitton of financial aid.
I want to go into physics.. so there really is no way around college.
I'm in a remarkably similar position, not 100% sure about my major though. I'll be twenty-five before I transfer to UT, but I'll also graduate without any debt and I actually give a fuck about learning so I think it's worth it.
I think going to college right out of high school when you're too immature to care about classes and mostly ignorant about the value of $ is retarded. It seems to me like most "fuck college" kids are in this position, toiling for a degree they don't really want b/c they're too young, just doing it b/c it's the next thing to do.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14520443 - 05/27/11 11:59 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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in my opinion institutionalized schools are just as much as a distraction from "real life" as the military is. I know people who are in an endless loop of schooling because they dont know how to function without it, in the same way that some people dont know how to live outside of having a job or being in a relationship.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Asante] 3
#14520552 - 05/27/11 12:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I didn't have the right kind of brain for college/high school, couldn't take the brainwashing. In hindsight I'm so glad I never went. I did it the hard way, through experience, learning on my own, etc. I educated myself. I was homeless for a while, but I worked my way up. Now I'm fairly successful, work for a successful computer company, doing pretty good. My biggest debt is dental bills, I'm like 2k or so in debt and freaking out.. then I hear these stories about people in 50-100k debt and feel a little better.. Don't have a problem with money per se... but the whole system of credit/creating debt is pure evil. Sure some people will say you do it to yourself, but the system is designed in a way that it encourages such behavior. College should be free.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Shroomism]
#14520563 - 05/27/11 12:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I relate there. Ive got a couple thousand dollars in hospital bills but then I hear about people owing more than I make in a couple years.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Shroomism] 2
#14520569 - 05/27/11 12:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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ive ranted about college so much on here, just some advice, dont go to college because its expected, look at other options. if i had skipped college and could have gotten a loan for the same amount of money, i would have shit tons of good equipment i would have my own small business/side job right now. if i had skipped college and went to a community college or just started trying to work in my field, and have someone take me on as an apprentice i would have learned soooo much more than i know now.
college has taught me plenty about writing bullshit papers and navigating bureaucracy, but i know nothing that can actually get me a job.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: kintos]
#14520589 - 05/27/11 12:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think yall are looking at it wrong. I thought the same way years ago, skipped college to go out and make money, did pretty well too.
Eventually you realize the correlation between education and happiness. I have no debt, money invested in several directions, a paid off 8th gen Civic, immaculate credit, and so on. None of it made me any happier than I had been, even though life is certainly easier w/o debt. I failed miserably at self-education outside of school, despite my best intentions. You tend to focus on one area instead of many different avenues. Just my experience.
Go to college to get a broader picture of how the world works, not to get a degree/job.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14520604 - 05/27/11 12:44 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Except that you don't have to go to college and get in debt to get a broader picture of how the world works. College doesn't necessarily teach you how the real world works.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Shroomism]
#14520692 - 05/27/11 01:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Except that you don't have to go to college and get in debt to get a broader picture of how the world works. College doesn't necessarily teach you how the real world works.
you get a broader picture of how to cheat your way through life. this woman i work under just got her masters and she cant even spell.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Olympus Mons]
#14520733 - 05/27/11 01:07 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I learned the most about how the real world works by becoming self employed while living on the streets.
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Shroomism said: Except that you don't have to go to college and get in debt to get a broader picture of how the world works. College doesn't necessarily teach you how the real world works.
you get a broader picture of how to cheat your way through life. this woman i work under just got her masters and she cant even spell.
Pretty much. About the dumbest girl I know is in college and I was helping her with her work. I edited her paper finding a ridiculous amount of errors in it and I know Im not exactly immaculate.
It lead me to think "if people like her can get into college maybe I should go".
Then I remembered it was all a scam.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14520766 - 05/27/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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after going to college, i can say from experience it's pure bullshit.
most of my professors are ingly stupid... they just give you the formulae, and you fill in the blanks. life isn't like that.
we each go forward, testing our own ideas and theories, learning from mistakes and keeping favorable results. college, on the other hand, tried to convince me that we all follow rules, we all elaborate on assumptions made before us, we don't need to look critically at whats goin on around us, it's all being "figured out."
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: gabbaganchi]
#14520791 - 05/27/11 01:17 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's training people to be sheep who make markedly good incomes by doing what they are told and doing it well.
Id rather be slightly poorer and be my own man not working for the big scary corporation.
Though sometimes I think itd be cool to do the suit and office thing.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14520797 - 05/27/11 01:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Idk.. I go to community college (ending fresh year) and Im only 18 so I admit i have a pretty narrow perspective on how things turn out to be.. But Ive learned more from my Cultural antropology class, Euro history class and Macroecon class than ive learned in a long time. I read more personal books than school than school books, but being in a class and being able to communicate with a teacher really is awesome IMO.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: realfuzzhead]
#14520814 - 05/27/11 01:20 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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and I kind of disagree Muscaria.. I mean if someone is truly going through college because they feel they have to and only pick some random field because they think it makes a decent income than yeah, that is going to suck for them later on .
but what about a physics major who just really really likes physics? Or Anthropologist? Sometimes the only real way to get good access to the smartest people in the field or to the capital needed to perform experiments is to go through the motions, and then go to graduate school.
given once again im probably the youngest one here so I dont know how all this truly plays out
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: realfuzzhead]
#14520847 - 05/27/11 01:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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You get out of it what you put in.
And no, Shroomism, you don't have to have debt. If you go to a four year university and work a shit job, you probably do, but that's your choice. I subject myself to cold-call sales to pay my way, incidentally it also will make me much more successful at starting a business if I ever decide to.
As for stupid profs, sure there are a lot of them, but there are also websites like pickaprof and ratemyprofessor that can help you find the good ones. They usually have a lower rating b/c lazy shithead kids don't like ones who want you to think critically.
I do understand the notion that they brainwash you though. They're always trying to force skeptical, critical thinking on me, but life is so much cooler believing in crystals and drug entities. Damn them
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: realfuzzhead]
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I really dig anthropology so I spend a good portion of my free time reading about various cultures, civilizations, traditions, etc.
I dont need to pay out the ass to learn what I can learn freely on the internet. I only need the title to back me up if I plan on writing a research paper and actually want it acknowledged by the scientific community.
The knowledge? the knowledge is free.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: MisterMuscaria]
#14520877 - 05/27/11 01:30 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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well actually the class was only 120-130 dollars plus having to buy a cheap paper back book.
totally worth the money to have an awesome professor fucking preach godliness and blow my mind 1 and half hours a day /twice a week. Seriously man some of the studies she had us read I would of never been able to find.
California has the cheapest CC's in america, so I definitely believe Im getting at least what I pay for
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14520902 - 05/27/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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lol crystals.
i'm the most cynical skeptic i know. college is the starting blocks of the rat-race. if i had a legitamate interest in being a scientist, i would be much more thrilled about the experience i'm getting at a university. i'm more interested in my hobbies and drugs, as is, both are far more fulfilling on a short- and long-term basis
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: gabbaganchi]
#14520933 - 05/27/11 01:39 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fair enough then, clearly college isn't for you. I love science and I'm that fucker who never studies and has a 4.0 as well as no debt, so my view is much different.
I suppose for the dummies getting marketing, psychology and communications degrees, arguing against evolution to their Bio 101 profs, you're totally right. Of course, they might also make lifelong friends, meet a spouse or have some insightful idea that changes their life, but none of that is guaranteed to happen or end up well.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14521058 - 05/27/11 01:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fair enough then, clearly college isn't for you. I love science and I'm that fucker who never studies and has a 4.0 as well as no debt, so my view is much different.
I suppose for the dummies getting marketing, psychology and communications degrees, arguing against evolution to their Bio 101 profs, you're totally right. Of course, they might also make lifelong friends, meet a spouse or have some insightful idea that changes their life, but none of that is guaranteed to happen or end up well.
exactly my point. people are paying ridiculous amounts because they think they're getting some kind of guarantee. college definitely is what you make of it, i just can't make anything useful lol. "these hands weren't meant to create! they can only destroy."
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14521167 - 05/27/11 02:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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uber_aj said: You get out of it what you put in.
And no, Shroomism, you don't have to have debt. If you go to a four year university and work a shit job, you probably do, but that's your choice. I subject myself to cold-call sales to pay my way, incidentally it also will make me much more successful at starting a business if I ever decide to.
As for stupid profs, sure there are a lot of them, but there are also websites like pickaprof and ratemyprofessor that can help you find the good ones. They usually have a lower rating b/c lazy shithead kids don't like ones who want you to think critically.
I do understand the notion that they brainwash you though. They're always trying to force skeptical, critical thinking on me, but life is so much cooler believing in crystals and drug entities. Damn them 
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: gabbaganchi]
#14521473 - 05/27/11 03:01 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fair enough then, clearly college isn't for you. I love science and I'm that fucker who never studies and has a 4.0 as well as no debt, so my view is much different.
I suppose for the dummies getting marketing, psychology and communications degrees, arguing against evolution to their Bio 101 profs, you're totally right. Of course, they might also make lifelong friends, meet a spouse or have some insightful idea that changes their life, but none of that is guaranteed to happen or end up well.
exactly my point. people are paying ridiculous amounts because they think they're getting some kind of guarantee. college definitely is what you make of it, i just can't make anything useful lol. "these hands weren't meant to create! they can only destroy."
I would say, then, that the people who think they're getting a guarantee are ignorant, not that the colleges are bullshit.
I don't mean to be blindly defending colleges either, they're obviously susceptible to hiring shitty profs, passing fools for their athletic prowess and whatnot. It's doubtless that in the near future corporations will largely influence what is taught as well.
Our education system needs a drastic overhaul and not the one that will likely play out - College becoming a luxury of the affluent, trade schools becoming the norm for everyone else.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: uber_aj]
#14521497 - 05/27/11 03:06 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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every time the governent raises financial aide the cost of tuition has to go up

that is seriously so messed up
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: the human abstract] 1
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the human abstract said: every time the governent raises financial aide the cost of tuition has to go up

that is seriously so messed up
That's what happens when you subsidize something. Every time.
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: zappaisgod] 1
#14521675 - 05/27/11 03:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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The people who made this video are the same people who own the National Inflation Association. These same people were invovled in pump and dump penny stock scams, getting people to drive prices up on penny stocks and then selling them for their own profit at the cost of their subscribers.
http://libertyportal.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/peter-schiff-calls-out-nia-national-inflation-association-as-pump-and-dump-scammers/
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Re: The College Conspiracy - it's the biggest fraud in US history [Re: Rebirtha]
#14521999 - 05/27/11 04:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i would never waste a minute of my time in a college setting, unless it was a very very special school...
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