I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork

I remember the novelty of shoddy fluorescent lights illuminating secluded spartan desks in quiet library nooks. Ah, college. A mostly useless experience of mine, in all honesty. And that's taken me years to realize, but today that realization came knocking at my door like I owed it money. Oh, wait...

The percentage of jobless college graduates is astounding. And the number of college graduates employed in an area unrelated to their field of study? Possibly even a larger number. And to say that I learned anything there...well, the classes were pretty uninformative. Unlike the public school systems, the world where teaching is little more than endless paperwork and red tape [an increasingly counter-intuitive system created to improve education], college has little in place to assure the quality of courses.

I was scoffed at earlier by a man, as I was sharing my opinions about post-secondary education. "Yeah, useless," he says, "learning about the world is useless." College taught me about the world to the sum of 0. If you want to learn about the world, you do that yourself. Take even half the amount of money spent on college, spend it on travel, books, etc., and you will learn an incalculable amount more about the world than college could teach you.

In this economy, college hardly seems worth the exorbitant amount of money and young, precious years of your life. I'm strongly starting to believe that the instituion itself is a goddamn joke. I say give the same loans to fund individually controlled post-secondary education. I think the notion of a piece of paper being a qualification for a job is unreasonably exclusive. If I had spent my tuition on my own research, my own literature, I would have been more qualified for a position in my field of study than I was after my four years at University.

It's all just a big fallacy. A way to suck the money from us. It's a shame I think, that K-12 education is a mandatory college advertisement. Kids are given a choice between only a few paths. College, vocation, or [sometimes] military. We're too young. We don't ask, "What else is there?" Somebody should say something!

Other options are limited, though, I suppose. It isn't as if our financial institutions would actually fund freelance education. Certainly not in this economy. I suppose you could save for a year or two, travel a bit, frequent the libraries. Yes, there are still opportunities without  corporate funding. Still, though, what can you do with it? No one wants you if you don't got that piece of paper.

I guess I'm just spinning my wheels...