Mageman

@lobsticle said:

I know that the topic is regretting not attending university, but I want to encourage the opposite view just a little. As a budding professor (and full-time university student from 2002-2011) I want to take a different look at this question. An education obtained from high school establishes basics and fundamentals and benefits most. An education purchased from a university is much different. University courses are what you put into them. You pay the same fee (excluding nominal lab fees) for a molecular microbiology course as you do a karate course. Do you want to learn and hone your knowledge? Take courses that will interest you and ultimately advance you towards your career choice. Many professors only teach courses to supplement their own research and have class sizes of over 200 people. If you show a real interest in the course, visit office hours, and read the material in your spare time (most) professors will notice and appreciate your effort. You are paying for this and should care about the results, but in the end it is ultimately up to you how much knowledge/dollar you acquire. It is easy to become disgruntled or upset during your first couple of years in college and even your first year of graduate school. Just try and get as much out of what your paying for and see if that doesn't help with the feeling that this is all worthless. After 9 years and several moments of "I should just quit" I now have an awesome job that lets me genetically engineer bacteria during the day and play video games all night.

Obviously college is a good thing if you study science/engineering/medicine and at first I thought ''what the hell are they talking about'' but most people here seem to count arts/humanities and that bullshit as real majors. And those are really not worth any money or effort.

@Giantstalker said:

@Mageman said:

College here is free and while we don't have the newest and shiniest lab equipment, the students seem to be quite well off pulling awards at MIT and so on. I can't imagine what it would be like having to pay a lot for higher education. What is the average cost of UNI in the UK or Canada for example (I know that it's quite a lot in the US, I think...)

$50,000 is the "average" for an undergraduate degree here, but some programs are much more expensive even at any given school

That is pretty fucking huge. Although don't students get scholarships and stuff like that ? Is it hard to get a scholarship which pays most of your expenses ?

College here is free and while we don't have the newest and shiniest lab equipment, the students seem to be quite well off pulling awards at MIT and so on. I can't imagine what it would be like having to pay a lot for higher education. What is the average cost of UNI in the UK or Canada for example (I know that it's quite a lot in the US, I think...)

It's all fund and games till someone finds the rotting corpse of a kidnapped young girl.

The drop sounded better than I expected. Really good.

Video games are make believe, and as long as they aren't going for a very serious tone it really should strive for the most aesthetic and attractive character models.

And yeah the heroes are mostly white males, and you know why ? Because most of the audience are white males, it makes sense.

Put it in a bank because clearly you don't really want a game if you have to ask the GB community about your decision.

Skylanders !

I agree, very much so.

I have a couple of what people call ''e-friends'', but I don't view them as people but rather as just a part of the internet itself.

Some people like such movies, deal with it. I personally think they are boring but some people might find them entertaining. It's just a damn movie.