I know this isn't Trump related but I don't know if I made the right decision. I was originally supposed to go to college this year at the University of Oregon, but I decided to take the gap year because of being across the country, COVID, the wildfires, and the riots. But I'm an A/B student and I just feel lost without learning and being in a school environment and I was going to go, but then the wildfires flared up. I didn't care about the riots because campus police is very strict at U of O and I don't care about College campuses, but I listened to my parents and just decided to stay at home. I'm just sitting at home playing golf, researching new colleges to go to, and playing video games with high school seniors. Nobody in my area is hiring because they are either closing soon or just don't want to take on new staff and a lot of people aren't taking volunteers near me. I'm seeing all of my friends having fun in college and I'm sitting in my basement feeling left out.
I just don't know if I made the right decision, some days I feel like I made the right decision, but then some days I feel a deep regret with my decision.
This may be unpopular opinion, but its mine: fuck college. Unless you've got scholarships or a free ride through. I say this because I first went to college a long time ago. My first semester, the bill was 495 bucks for five classes. My father passed during my second semester, I hit a skid of depression, dropped out. Shit happens, life has a way of throwing you loops. I went back in 2004, got a degree in nuclear medicine. Classes were a bit more expensive. I went back 2 years ago. Holy hell. Its a gd racket now. First you're paying a ridiculous amount. THEN you have to listen to liberal bullshit. First fuckin' day, one of the teachers started off, "I'm not a liberal, but..." Here we fucking go. It wasn't even a class, it was a semester long Trump bash. So I was like, fuck it, I'm done. I say screw student loans, you want something useful and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, hit a trade school. I could keep on, but I've got to go to work now 😐