looking at community college programs is making me insane... it's so frustrating to be a little older, with the benefit of experience and hindsight, and realizing that every single adult in your life completely and totally failed you. anything other than going straight from high school to university and a full, 4-year courseload wasn't presented as an option to me when planning for higher education (which I started doing when I was 15) even though I couldn't even decide on a field of study. I burned out pretty much immediately and suffered breakdown after breakdown in just my first semester until I was forced to call it quits (and was then forced to repeat this process straightaway, although it wasn't as bad at the second uni). now I'm finding out I could've gotten a degree in two years with literally no core classes (since I completed those credits in high school). just depressing
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Capital C College fucking sucked. Feels like they just don't give a shit about people's well-being beyond their grades. Maybe we should improve a system of education that gives everybody nightmares???
AND YET YOU PARTICIPATE IN SOCI- no yeah that would be great imo!! this is even without going into the cost of higher education in America, which I thankfully didn't have to worry about at the time. I do think change is coming, if for no other reason than the fact that degrees mean less and less in professional settings every year
Having gone to a community college, it's amazing how inferior everyone makes you feel about it, and then learning first hand how overhyped actual college is in comparison is absolutely fucked.
actual college is awful lmao. full-time university wasn't then and never will be for me but even past that veneer it's impossible to understand the structure — both at a base level and how it's meant to ever help anyone. every "successful" college story I hear is either someone who's grateful for the impact it had on their career (but never considered any other options), or someone who knew what they wanted to do professionally for years before college, and then put their nose to the grindstone to figure out which university would be best for that, and is now tens of thousands of dollars in debt