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Originally Posted by Glice

Uni is well worth it in my mind. Not for any reasons of getting a job or whatever - the majority of people are pretty fucked and never going to get a job - but at least it's a detraction from the real world for a bit, and you'll be finding out whether or not you really do love whatever you're doing.

I do kind of agree with the fact that photographers make it whether they go to Uni or not - but I think this misses the fact that you're having time away, on a leash, getting a bit of independence and finding out about yourself and all that hippy gash that people say. Although I do bemoan film studies students quite frequently, but that's mainly because nearly every one I know is, in fact, a stoner who doesn't really want to do anything but watch films. Actually, that's true of most students - the number of philosophy students I met who used Uni as a skive from life was preposterous, and utterly contrary to the amount of work you need to put in to such a course...

Still. Yes. Go to Uni, it's great, don't worry about debt, you're probably going to be fucked by credit cards and the like any way.

but professor-- you're studying philosophy. if im guessing right, you might have an academic career in mind. hence your education is a prerequisite, not an option.

im not discounting the value of an education. on the contrary, i think it's a great thing. but often times it tends to be overvalued and entered into without proper consideration-- almost as a reflex. and that (not necessarily the demands of it) is why so many people flunk out or end up with useless degrees.

i encourage people who want an education to get one. but i advise people who are not sure if they want one to pursue other things until the time comes when they truly need one.

i have taught college students and i can testify: adult students are better and work harder than spoiled partygoers trying to appease their parents. because one group wants it badly, and the other is more concerned with getting high.