It is sad when people latch on to a narrative and then try to visualize themselves as part of it without asking the really difficult questions.
College is a great tool. You get to mix with other really smart people in a much higher density than you were exposed to in high school. If you visited a number of colleges you may have been recruited by a college that seeks your particular flavor of intelligence and in that you might find many more people like "you" there.
Mostly though college is a great place where you can do something (get a degree) without really anyone except your own desire to finish forcing you through it, and in the presence of numerous temptations to not finish it. Its like the final walk over coals at a volunteer self awareness session.
"Can you do what you set out to do, in the face of other people trying to tell you it isn't important or dangling other more tempting activities in front of you?"
A college degree is a reasonably objective and authenticated 'yes you can' to that question. And anyone who can answer that question in the affirmative will be better off than someone who cannot.
It isn't college that makes you employable, its knowing you can finish what you start does. If you already are doing that for large things you will be successful with our without a degree.
College is a great tool. You get to mix with other really smart people in a much higher density than you were exposed to in high school. If you visited a number of colleges you may have been recruited by a college that seeks your particular flavor of intelligence and in that you might find many more people like "you" there.
Mostly though college is a great place where you can do something (get a degree) without really anyone except your own desire to finish forcing you through it, and in the presence of numerous temptations to not finish it. Its like the final walk over coals at a volunteer self awareness session.
"Can you do what you set out to do, in the face of other people trying to tell you it isn't important or dangling other more tempting activities in front of you?"
A college degree is a reasonably objective and authenticated 'yes you can' to that question. And anyone who can answer that question in the affirmative will be better off than someone who cannot.
It isn't college that makes you employable, its knowing you can finish what you start does. If you already are doing that for large things you will be successful with our without a degree.