Bill Gates was absolutely destroyed, on so many levels, in an AMA, today.
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I went to Harvard for a year before transferring out, and I agree and disagree. The content was about equivalent to the (admittedly hard) state school I attended and the work load about the same as well. What made Harvard easier was that the teachers CARED if you passed. Like, if you missed class, or flunked an exam, they'd just let you retake it. That shit don't fly in state school/community college. Examples:
At Harvard, I was placed into a French class that was 100% above my pay grade. I told the prof like 15x to place me in a lower level, and he wouldn't. So for the final, which was 100% in French and I couldn't even understand the questions, I wrote my name and walked out. They still passed me.
At community college, I took a biology with a lab where the lab manual was out of stock at the bookstore. I auto-failed the class for not having the lab manual ("missing a lab") because the prof would not provide photo copies of the lab for me until it came back into stock.
Damn. You just blew my mind. If college had been like that for me, life would've been completely different. I had professors who insisted I go to extracurricular events, even though I was already working 50-60 hours a week and taking a full course load, or they'd fail me. Ended up so burned out I couldn't see straight.
Despite having multiple graduate degrees I maintain I wouldn't have done any of this if I got to re-do my life. Took me a decade, my husband and I have $200k in student loans EACH, and now I'm in my early 30's struggling to have kids because I waited too long.
I'd join the military or become an electrician (or a different trade). I just hired one for my kitchen and he makes the same per hour I do.
School is stupid, expensive, and political. You jump through hoops until you get an expensive piece of paper.
I happened to go install a battery in the car of this lawyer my wife cleaned house for. We got to discussing the mechanic business, and I told him what I charged for heavy diesel, or hydraulic repairs.
Dude couldn't believe how much it was. He is a good guy, and worked his butt off, and he said he wishes he had done something with real meaning. So it's not uncommon for white collar ppl to rethink life choices
Problem is once you’re that far in debt, rethinking isn’t really an option. And I didn’t realize med school wasn’t my cup of tea until I was already 6 years/6 figures into it.
I just wish someone had told me when I was 18 and taking out loans that there were options besides formal college.