Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "College graduates are not using their degrees, study shows" video.
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What college and university does is allow you to learn how to learn. This sounds strange, but the time you are in university is filled with meeting people who you would never, ever meet under normal circumstances and you get time to day dream. You get nutty professors. My physics professor talking about a monkey falling out a tree to make a point on gravity or something is engraved in the back of my mind with his German accent and the like. "And the monkey fall down. Why?" he would say or something like that. The room of kids exploded in laughter. Of course, going right from High School into an apprenticeship or where you learn on the job is excellent as well, but having 4 more years---or in my case 5 more years because I bombed out of a major university---gave me valuable time to imagine doing dozens of things and mostly letting my mind wander. I became a sculptor. I went to university because my dad said you're gonna be a doctor. I had no problem with the classes, and I worked with doctors of renown and low and behold I found it very, very hard to see blood. Not a good sign for a future surgeon... I quit. My older brother called me and I said, 'look, I've done 3 years, that's enough, I don't wanna be a doctor.' He said the 4 magic words that made me go back that last year: "Do it for mom." I was so mad he said that and then I went back and finished my degree, came home to my parents and placed on the kitchen table. "That's all I wanted," my mother kindly spoke. "Now, get out of here and do whatever you wana do." You'll laugh, but I didn't use my diploma for 17 years until I started teaching English.
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