Instead of shelling out $80K for a diploma, buy a luxury car. You’ll have a place to sleep when you can’t find a job.
Colleges and universities want your money. They shroud their avarice in flowing gowns and ivory towers, but they are not cradling knowledge so much as they are selling sheepskin.
I began my college career in a different time. It was the late ’90s, and the economy was booming. I started at a junior college in California, not knowing what I wanted to do.
This, coupled with the fact that I was young and restless and was paying a total of about $600 a semester, did not impel me to any sort of urgency about completing my education.
