I could write a long message about it, but it'd be useless as the point is just to go to and complete college. Two more of my friends are flunking college right now, and it's because of a drinking problem in both their cases. They both got huge debts to pay off, and if they do fail (which is 90% likely at this point), then they're being kicked out and have no place to go come January, much less a job to pay off their debt.
This has happened now to almost half of my friends from high-school, and I keep on seeing it happening over and over. The problem is that they go to college and treat it like a big party, and in some ways, college is like a big party. But it's mostly hard work and it does take a lot of dedication to graduate.
Fortunately, I think most people on this site realize that; I'm always told by others (not members of YWS) how surprised they are at the level of education here. But remember, first go to college. I know a lot of people who decided to skip it, and honestly, a couple did do well. But that's a couple; the vast, vast majority are unhappy, frustrated, and just barely making it. Once you go to college, complete it. I now know way too many people who thought college was a party, and now they're paying for it. Some are fortunate enough to have parents who don't mind having a 25 year old son or daughter in the house who flips hamburgers for a living. Others don't.
So anyways, I just can't believe right now that two more of my friends are flunking out of college, and one of them had only a semester to go. In the long run, they'll be fine, but they're causing themselves unnecessary hardship in the meantime. None of this has anything to do with background either. I know people who went to one of the best private schools in the nation, and now they're unemployed, without a college degree, and crash at different people's houses for a day, a few days, or a week. Conversely, I know people who came from troubled homes, but went to college, got a degree, and they are indeed scraping by. Yet they at least have a career and an apartment.
So this did turn out to be a long message, or at least longer than I intended. However, I just can't understand how someone could so willfully destroy everything they have going for them just for the sake of having a good time. Some of these people are extraordinarily intelligent. In fact, I have an Uncle who has an IQ of 170, but he spends every single dollar he earns on gambling and drinking. He skipped college too.
The Bottom Line? Go to College and finish College. What you get your degree in hardly even matters just as long as you have a degree.
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