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Re:College vs Start-up - It's not about the job by webwright on Monday March 02, 2009 @01:21PM (#500409)
I regret going to college before I understood how real life really worked. I would've taken it more seriously, picked a major a bit more deliberately, etc.

If I ever had kids, I'd tell them I'd pay for a chunk of college-- if they put it off for 1-2 years after high school.

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Re:College vs Start-up - It's not about the job by aikiai on Monday March 02, 2009 @04:16PM (#500631)
Agreed. It only took me 1-2 years out of college to begin to regret all the things I DIDN'T study while I was there. If I'd taken a year or two, worked, and got some "partying" out of my system, my college years would have been much better spent.

College should not be a way to delay a child's real life. It should be part of their strategy to live a good one.

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