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I think nothing is as irreplaceable as college. I know a few people who didn't go, young and old. I think it's more or less necessary for me to go to college, or at least important, mostly for my kids. I don't want them to check, "parents received high school diploma or less" whenever they're applying for college or student loans.

Is that shallow?

I know I can learn whatever I need to without going to college. But I'll get the full learning experience with a degree. And people always say, a college degree isn't about what you learn, it's about proving you can stick to something. I think I've outgrown that statement a little.

All my friends who were in my class are graduating college this year, after four years since high school graduation.

I could learn how to program, and be working with computers in the industry for four years, instead of going to college. But I just need that extra push from the university, for my full life plan. Does that make sense? It's almost not about being top in my field, but having a rounded background.

Plus I'm pretty fucked up and if I don't go to college, I won't have the support system I need to survive.

My mom and I were planning to wait one year after high school before going to college. Some of my friends hate the institution of college and may never go. It's been four years. I'm so ready... and get this, I'm going to a community college. I have the choice, within the next 14 days, to plan for a four-year education, which I will get with student loans, or just a 2-year degree, or even a 1-year certificate. It's kinda a hard choice. I want to go to a 4-year college. So I'm going to plan to get my fresh and soph years at the comm coll and then transfer to OCU or OU. But it's expensive.

But I want to know, how easy is it to do things outside of college when you're IN college? To all my college graduates. Because I don't need to socialize, or drink--I need to stay forward-thinking. And I guess all learning is forward-thinking, but I have a few ideas that I want to lift-off and I don't want to put them on hold for college. So could I be in college and start a business? Or what? I want to be a super-tasker, it's funny because I'm just the opposite, but I feel capable of being ON 24/7.

College won't be a distraction. I'll sacrifice my crazy business schemes to get the education. But what degree will I get? If I just want a 1-year certificate of mastery, I can go for office procedure and get a job in a law office or something. But they don't look for secretaries with degrees. If I go for the broadcasting four-year plan, what do I do? Do I travel to hollywood or new york and make all kinds of obscenely wicked awesome contacts in the broadcasting/film/media industry? Or do I have to stay domestic and keep it all in the city, tied down by my crazy class schedule. Will classes even be hard? Did I learn more in the four years since I graduated than I will in the next four years? Will I really be 26 one day? Will I meet a girl in college or after college?

Somebody answer. You guys know it all.

Think about a homeless person. Think about the freedom. Now think about a homeless-type with like, 3 places to stay. That's me. I wake up at 3 am and record a podcast or plan a novel, and the inspiration is there. But I can't brush my teeth every morning at 7 am. Will the university change this?

Dude, it's overwhelming. I want to be a dull wad. I want to chill out.

But what if this is the key to happiness? W/I my current lifestyle is the way to live? I certainly know my anti-college friends dig it. I could come up with a sound business plan in one week and execute the plan in another week, and we'd all have jobs. I know I'm cocky. But it's the truth.

It's the internet, that's what it is. If it wasn't for the internet, I'd be another fungus. A shroom-turd, I'd have to jet out of Oklahoma probably, but with the internet I can happily camp out here until my move to Denver, which, by the way, is full of both highly educated people and bums at the same time. Which is kind of what I am. I took five AP classes. I scored the highest on the PSAT in my class. I'm a highly educated bum. And it has to stop.