[Phoenix]

(08-21-2015 08:36 AM)Sonoma Wrote:  

As a recent college grad and high school teacher-

Do your 4 years of college here at a state school/JC then transfer. The debt is pretty minimal if you live at home or work at all during this time. It's a great chance to test yourself socially and score a ton of hot ass. You'll get your degree in whatever, then get your TEFL and teach overseas.

It's better to do it in this order first than try to go back to college when you're older, because when you're older it won't be half as fun. If you wanted to say fuck the expenses, do a semester/year abroad. Debt would be worth the expenses. If you start off early with German and solid grades you could score free college over there.

I'll say this- if you don't do 4 year college you will always be on the social peripheral of people who make money. There's a shared experience of being a freshman, doing your shitty assignments and trying to bang that girl in your undergrad courses.

Terrible advice. Even topped off with a 'lemming justification' at the end. It seems that since you will spend your entire life in a school of some kind. Out and then immediately back in on the other side of the classroom. If OP reads this advice, he should consider that this poster is an admitted member of the education industry, and thus has a biased opinion. No doubt he'll be spreading this message to the impressionable children he teaches, so they join the ranks of the disgruntled young adults I meet who are always complaining about their crushing college debt and how much they need to work to pay it off.