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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know, I'm a successful adult with a successful career. I'm not doing anything at all related to my college major.

I think the value and purpose of college is to learn something new and be able to learn how to learn something new, get exposure to lots of fields and types of work and see what you are good at and like, grow up.

A lot of college is a bridge to adulthood - learning how to get along with people when your parents aren't around to help, learning to ask for help, living and working independently, learning social and financial skills, etc.

Sure this world makes it seem like everyone should be in a pre-professional program and just learn to get into a high income generating field, but that's not what most successful people do or did.

I think the value of college is more in the other things, and therefore you don't need to pay 80K per year to accomplish those things.

-mom of one current college student and one recent college graduate who is working and supporting herself but also not in her field.[/quote]

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