I don't feel like I'm on a quest for knowledge. I feel like I'm playing a game trying to make it in this world. Could I should finish out my Liberal Arts Associates and just teach myself? Yes I would like to own my own land, but maybe I'll just have to live life modestly in the city and just enrich myself in between shifts, both artisticly and intellectually.
2007-11-27 10:02:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
In other words, is college a joke?
2007-11-27 10:06:59 · update #1
I can't really relate, but guess what. life is a game of survival. The point of college is to give you better chances. If you manage to do that and still feel like you have the time and energy to look for knowledge, it would be amazing.
What it all comes down to is, what do you want? a quest for knowledge is often started, but not ended, at college. a good job is often started at college too. farming is generally not. but there is more than one way to get to a goal, and you have to decide yourself which works best.
thats just my opinion, i won't have to deal with college for another four and a half years, not counting preparation.
2007-11-27 10:10:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does sound like you have been expecting too much of a community college (you are talking about an associates degree, so I'm assuming you are at a community college). It is there to provide you with the basic skills so that you can go on to a decent university, where the intellectual atmosphere should be quite different.
2007-11-27 18:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by neniaf 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm wondering about your college. I went to a university, too, ... and because I had been such a good high school student, I thought it would be more of the same.
So wrong... I had such great professors who really challenged me... and that degree led me to a real cherry of a job. Finally... why would you even want to live modestly ... which equates to living check to check ....when you could live several notches above that and still have your own land.
2007-11-27 18:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You get out of it what you put into it. I learned a lot in college and had the best time so it is all about how you experience it.
If your not getting anything out of it, sit out a semester, pay your owns bills and come up short each month and get back into the right frame of mind then go back. College isn't for everyone
2007-11-27 18:11:58 · answer #4 · answered by ♥STREAKER♥©℗† 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋