Rich Kids - Top Schools/University

[thor2014]

I appreciate that I might be digressing from the subject. However I believe that its waste of time and money going to university these days. They fill your head with absolute garbage. I have met people who were undergraduates at Harvard and they tell me the majority of students felt lonely and isolated. I was told a lot of them are on anxiety related medication etc. Some of them felt lonely and isolated as Harvard is somewhere in the middle of nowhere where its difficult to reach the next town.

I wasted three years at university and my degree did not assist me in anyway to get my first job.

I think going to university is not a waste of time and money IF and ONLY IF what you choose to study takes you to a job you want to do, for example going to med school to become a doctor or doing dentistry, veterinary, sciences, IT or such that takes you into the area that you want to work cannot be a waste of time.

The waste of time comes when students do degrees that:

1) They dont want to do but got in simply to go to uni (such as in the UK happens alot cos they missed out on the grades to get into their 1st choice - through a system known as clearing)

2) Do a degree simply for shits and giggles such as philosophy etc that doesnt really lead into a job

3) didnt get good grades and so cannot do the job they wanted to do.

There are many graduates in the UK that go to uni that arent even clever enough to really do exams, and thats because now the system in the UK I believe is broken. In the past clever people were the only ones that went to uni or the rich (such as oxford etc) however now every past polytechnic (maybe same as a US community college) became a university and thus this allowed anyone from anywhere to get into a so called university where the standard just isnt great.

Also schools never teach you how to study nor how to study for university which is why many fail and come out distraught and distressed.

I also feel that for us in the west there rise in mental health issues is directly linked to our western technologically advanced culture of putting work and independence first, and putting family second hell we even adore and care more for our own dogs then parents who we throw away like trash into old folks homes and this therefore plays a role in the way students find it distressing at uni.

Uni is also the place where now its fashionable to go to get laid and have relationships more than studying.

so anyway ill stop and take a breather haha

Agree for a medicine dentistry or law yes.

Anything else it's a waste of time.