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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 February 2016 09:56:22AM 10 points [-]

Discussion of how to use college to get what you want from it, with rather a lot about the details you need to think about and check. For example, if you're looking for a degree for a profession, it's important to find out whether a particular degree meets the requirement-- and if you're hoping to make money from a profession, you need to check on whether the money's actually there.

Comment author: TheAltar 05 February 2016 04:07:38PM 0 points [-]

Awesome blog post especially the parts about using university as a method of changing social class.

I also noticed that it would work as a good method of breaching into new cultures such as joining hacker culture as a programmer or acclimating to US culture as an international student.

Comment author: Elo 01 February 2016 09:26:01PM 0 points [-]

excellent post. I will read it through a second time when I can sit down and analyse it.