[selykg]

I'm going to second the affordable college option. I had a lot of help in the beginning so I didn't do this, but still wish I had done it. Community college to knock out the general education requirements and experience a wide variety of different subject areas. My local community college, back when I was going to college in the mid-2000s, was easily half the cost of the larger universities nearby. I have no idea how little, or much, this has changed, but I can't imagine it's more cost effective to goto a university.

We need to stop making it seem like the "college experience" is worth gobs of student loan debt.