Estimate on Student Loan Forgiveness

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Originally Posted by StinkyGreenBud [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You are a sucker if you went to college in this day and age.

Nah, I really don't think so. It depends on what you got out of it at the least.

Even though my education hasn't paid for itself in cashola, it gave me the bourgouis experiences to fit in with rich folks and get along in life. It also provided a time in my life to get super duper fit, get a couple big athletic achievements and enjoy the flower of my teenage beauty and all that. It did also get me jobs, since it's a STEM degree, although since lab work pays so badly I never worked in my field at all. Thanks to it, I feel pretty comfortable among ppl of any stratum and have a very sound scientific basis to my worldview, which as I watch the mass descend into madness and confusion over semantic arguments and the " discreditation of science " over climate change is something I definitely prize highly.

I think the whole shipping off and doing the dorm experience thing at an upscale institution is pretty good for most people. That's not to say you couldn't totally fuck yourself by going to a shitty school without a scholarship and being uber in debt and no better off, like at say an Arizona State, but speaking as a case who didn't last long in the professional world I still say my education was worthwhile. I would argue that it's such a great formative experience cluster that it probably would be a wise state investment into its young citizens.