DON'T GET THAT COLLEGE DEGREE!
The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
It's an interesting article and something I've thought about before. Though there's a number of folks in the comments that slam the economics of the article, there's definitely a ring of truth to it.
For me, personally, college wasn't worth it. Only the piece of paper at the end which opens up doors to jobs is of any value and even that is questionable. In the Drupal world, a degree isn't terribly important. I spent 6 years in college to get a BS in computer science. And in that time, I didn't learn anything of use in my field. I could have been spending that 6 years getting real world experience and getting paid for it. Instead, I came away with a huge debt to repay.
There's the argument that you don't learn job skills in college but rather "learn how to learn" and that may be true for some folks. Me, I've always loved learning. But I need to have a purpose. It either needs to be something that interests me or provide some gain such as learning for a job. Or, preferably, both. 
College didn't do anything for me there, either, except to reinforce how much I hate busywork and learning things that don't benefit me.
What about you? Did you go to college? Did you think it was worthwhile? If you knew you could get the same job without a degree, would you have bothered?
Michelle
