It's only one piece of success, I have a degree, getting an MBA next year, founded and ran two corporations that were profitable and one had 200 people, military service vet, and I'm in technical fields.

My advice would be zero interest in 'arts' degrees, stick to hard sciences. The liberal arts stuff really is of zero value in the market. Work and get experience, if you can't find one, make your own. 2 years of couch surfing with mom and dad looks bad.

Still have my card. It's a reminder of how trustworthy government is and how trusting young people can be. (Yes, older people, too.)

College is unaffordable. College degrees don't guarantee that the person holding it got an education. Larger corporations won't accept applicants for employment without a meaningless degree. Alice's Wonderland made much more sense than today's education system. I often feel like the guy at the end of the film, "Bridge on the River Kwai." He looked at the dead bodies, and at the destroyed bridge and all he could say was, "Madness, madness."

College won't tell students if there are less jobs than the graduates being pumped out for a certain field.

The easy access to student loans is driving up the cost of education to a ridiculous extreme. If people only went to college if they could pay (by working their way through, parent support, etc) the demand side would go down considerably.

The loans allow the colleges to charge more, which in turn requires more loans to be able to continue. Classic death spiral. Unfortunately it does not become clear to the student until he/she graduates with a degree that doesn't increase their value to the market.

I was stunned when that occupy movement was going on and a tenured professor was telling the crowd that that have a right to a free education. The first question I wanted to ask was if he was truly willing to teach for free. Then it dawned on me that this had not occurred to anyone there! The problem of course is that liberals are willfully ignorant of the difference between 'free' and 'someone else will have to pay for it'.

Yes, true. But if colleges are going to insist on indoctrinating kids versus actually educating them, then the cost should be free. Right? You'd think the marxist-loving professors would agree with that. If you haven't seen the independent film "Indoctrinate U" from 2007, I strongly recommend you do.

Prostitution is nothing new

I hate to couch it in these terms, but it's better than forgiving the loans an sticking the taxpayers (once again) with the check. This way at least somebody gets something they want.

Sheesh.