[nostrademons]

That mirrors my college experience, but I'll also point out that people who don't go to college usually don't just sit around on the couch all day doing nothing. They have experiences too, and meet other people that they would never have come into contact with had they gone to college, and often have jobs or other experiences that are much more varied than their college-educated peers.

I think the bottom line is that it doesn't actually matter whether you go, it matters that you make a decision and follow through on it, and that you make a decision based on your life and not the desires of your parents, teachers, the Internet, or society at large. Yes, not going may shut off some opportunities and experiences that you could have, but there will be other opportunities and experiences that fill that void.

[yuhong]

OT but on the no poach agreement scandal this comment suggest that Eric Schmidt should apologize (yea, I know "Jonathan Rosemberg" has already resigned from Google):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733775

As a side note, I think Eric Schmidt handles most of the legal stuff, right? That probably didn't help.