Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
That's what they say when you point out that college doesn't really -> job anymore.
I went to college, and pretty much got jack shit for an education. I educated myself. I went to a small high, Catholic high school and learned more there in the sense of "enrichment" than I ever did at the colleges I attended (and excelled in). Maybe at some point this was true: colleges enrich you, and college means you can get better jobs. That's not really true for a lot of people now, myself among them.
This seems to have changed so much in the 20+ years since I graduated. When I started in my first job I was more or less told that I wouldn't add any value to my employer for at least six months - the CS course I did was fairly theory heavy. However, they were happy with that, I more or less accepted that they were investing in me and I was fairly naive about the world of business - painfully true in retrospect.
