In fairness,
I think a lot of people go to university too young anyway. It just isn't for everyone at 18. I'd much rather teach a seminar-room full of 30-somethings who're there because they want to be, than a room full of teenagers who're there because they simply lack the nous to do anything else.

I say this as someone who was once a teenager who went to university largely in the absence of any better idea of what to do.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 15 Nov 2012, 21:35, 1 reply)

I went to university, pretty much by default.
I quit after 3 and a bit years, with no a degree and plenty of debt.
Totally worth it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 15 Nov 2012, 23:22, closed)

^^^^
Exactly this.
(Figmaus, Thu 15 Nov 2012, 23:58, closed)

I have failed two separate degrees* about two thirds of the way through due to depression
Depression is a cunt.
I now work as a somewhat underpaid scientific engineer - it pays a wage for sure, but nowhere near the money I should have been making.

*Psychology and applied physics, if you are even remotely interested.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Fri 16 Nov 2012, 10:13, closed)

Sad.
Psychology was my subject, too, but I wasn't suffering from depression, I was just lazy.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 16 Nov 2012, 15:32, closed)