I'll graduate with a useful degree with useful trade skills debt free next spring. I think the bigger issue is most students are lazy or they expect their professors to teach them everything.

I found that I was given instructions, an assignment, some curriculum, a platform in the form of a virtual lab and/or physical hardware. Ultimately, it has been up me to engage with the class and learn everything. I have always been able to ask questions and receive useful information or help.

If you want to graduate debt-free, move out a year before you start, get a PT job that pays for the most basic things. rent, utilities, food. Then you can get the max student aid amount which pays for 75+% of a reasonable tuition. Also, there are scholarships. There is a tax break, you spend $1000 on a laptop for school. You get a $1000 tax credit.

Avoid expensive and/or fraudulent colleges and universities because nobody really gives a shit where you got your degree so long as you are great at what you do, and it was accredited. 99.9% employers also do not give a shit what your GPA was, they only care that you have a diploma and know what you're doing. On the other hand, a degree from Harvard or MIT helps you stand out, but the average applicant doesn't have an ivy league education.

Also, I've seen people with PhDs that are simply unable to troubleshoot things that I have no issues with. I almost have my bachelor's degree. I tutored multiple master's degree students, and I was the reason they passed their 6000 level classes needed to graduate in their final semester. I had one master's degree student that wanted me to do his homework for him because he too stupid to do it himself. I told him to figure it out like an adult and lose my number. My peers were so far behind me while I was getting my associates degree in IT by the third semester that the entire class started crying real tears and complaining and yelling because I was going to get 100% on the hands-on finals and totally obliterate the curve. I felt like I was in the resource room or something, it was ridicules. Guess what? The teacher was forced to give every student except myself a 40% curve boost on each final because they all got between a 0% and a 30% and failed. They could not even complete part 1 of the part 4 final. I did all 4 parts correctly with over an hour to spare.

The biggest issue isn't an education or the educator, but the educated.

This post was edited by Superman on Dec 10 2025 06:51pm

HONK HONK

ty 4 your post.

accountability is sth many seem to have a lack of (not just here)