[capote]

If you can't see the point, then maybe university isn't for you. I'm not going to write an essay on what point I saw in school because I don't have time or interest.

The point is that I saw value in it. I liked learning about computer science. Why can't people stop shitting on this concept?

[imtringued]

Because you can learn about computer science without going to college. It's that simple.

[stale2002]

Good for you for being lucky enough to be able to follow your dreams.

But you have to understand that other people mostly just care about being able to put food on the table, pay rent, and being able to save up enough to be able to support a family and buy a house.

[ctrlalt_g]

> people mostly just care about being able to put food on the table, pay rent, and being able to save up enough to be able to support a family and buy a house.

I think that's what capote is frustrated with.

College (traditionally, at least in the U.S.) is one of the only spaces that encourages young people to have dreams at all. It provides an environment where becoming radicalized is accepted as a norm, where young people can dream of a life and of a society other than the status quo.

[dang]

Perhaps, but on a site intended for matters of intellectual substance I think it's fair to expect a bit more of ourselves.

[elliotec]

I went to university, and you're right, it wasn't for me. It also wasn't for the vast majority of people I knew that went.

It's great that you saw value in it. I do think you are in the minority. Most people don't like learning about stuff at the same time as working a job and throwing all their money at the university just to teach them stuff.

Almost every person that goes to a university is doing it for job prospects. Unquestionably. They think it's the new high school diploma, and in a lot of ways and industries they are correct.

You are an outlier, and that's why people are shitting on this concept.