Originally Posted by Kadmon428

Don't think that excessive debt is exclusive to a for profit school. It's a post college epidemic. And if you actually have some thousands amount of dollars to spend each year for the next 4 years then you will get a way better education NOT going to ANY college. College is full of dorks, beer drinkers, and other types of losers who have no idea who they are or why they are on the planet. They don't know how to take care of themselves holistically, shit they probably don't know the yearly position of the SUN, and they most often resort to doing what everyone else is doing. If you've been in the school system since you were 4 or 5 years old don't you think you owe it to yourself to at least spend some time exploring the world and exploring yourself?

There are so many internships, volunteer, work-trade opportunities out there where you can learn real skills that will help you take care of yourself and put you in a position where you are working within the biological and stellar cycles, as opposed to technological cycles. There's so many workshop courses you can take for fees nominal to what college tuition and lifestyle would cost. You can travel and interact with people in a whole new way and see some of the diversity of land and people in the world. There's no study-abroad course, or "cool" alternative school like Prescott or Warren-Wilson, etc that can really do that for you.

I was a 4.0 highschool student who turned down the university of michigan and who left michigan state university in favor of more free-flowing lifestyle and i not only have no regrets, but i want to seriously start compiling a list of resources, opportunities, workshops, farms, and other college-less trainings that could be a direct, intentional alternative to university.

Take a break from the system, find a natural rythm, follow the sun, moon, and stars, exercise and stretch, live outside for a while, grow food, save seeds, learn more trades/creative skills/'primitive' skills/natural building skills and you will find out way more about who you are and why you are here.

There's just days and days more of preaching i can do on this topic. Get a hold of me if you are interested in alternative learning. You can always try the Prussian Serf method of education for a few more years and then you'll know for sure that you are more powerful than any college will give you credit for.