I got mentioned on the BBC Have Your Say!
Not by name, but someone mentioned me on the BBC Have Your Say about whether or not it's worth going to university!
For some it is not worth it. These would be the mediocre who go there because mommy and daddy told them they had to have ANY degree. They excel at nothing because they care about nothing except partying, hanging with friends, consuming hours on Facebook everyday, and are incapable of competing in the real world which requires knowledge, ambition, and a will to produce.
Mike Nowak, PA, United States
Now, I've never met Mike Novak, but he seems to know me better than my own family. I read this and thought hey! I am mediocre! I did go to university because mum and dad shovelled me into it! I am incapable of competing in the real world! I was pretty impressed by this - even though we live on seperate continents, I feel like there's a connection here on a cosmic level, so well does Mike know me.
I'd only disagree with him on one point: I did feel like it was worth going to university. If you failed to stand out at school and are destined to thrash around ineffectually in the work place, then getting a mickey-mouse degree at a mickey-mouse university is essential. It gives three years of blissful sociability among people whose inability to succeed is matched only by your own. It's three years of doing something you're good at, regardless of how unproductive it is (in my case, reading fictional books and saying things about why these people who didn't exist did these things that didn't happen).
It's three years of happiness before you're condemned to a life of broken dreams, nudging an optical mouse around a messy desk while staring blankly into an Acer EyeFUCK9000.
