College, University, Gulag, what have you

As a senior in high school this coming year, I hear more and more and MORE people asking the inevitable, "So have you looked at colleges yet?" "Where would you like to go?" etc, etc. Some people tell me that it's the greatest time of their lives, some people tell me that it's years of hell. Some people say that undergraduate education is overrated and it doesn't really matter where you go for undergrad, and others say, "Harvard is KEY!"

I think my parents and friends are overreacting when they urge me to look at majors, application deadlines, information sessions and the like; I don't really care where I go as long as I get to study what I find interesting...and as long as I get to travel a lot...


What do you all think about the worldly experience known as COLLEGE? Like it? Hate it? Ambivalent? Indifferent? Please share your nuggets of wisdom here...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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College is a sham. Try culinary school. It's practical and gets you a job. Everybody needs to eat.

But isn't culinary school really really REALLY expensive? Much more so than college?

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Um, probably you should give it some more thought instead of going 'yeah whatever, pfft, researching information on where i'm going to spend the next half a decade of my life is for pussies, i just want to do something AWESOME and TRAVEL'

I mean, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but your post is making it seem that you have no clue what you want to do.

To Aardark, I guess I did sound a little cavalier about the whole process. I do have an idea about what I want to study, and I have looked at schools; I just think that college will be what you make of it, no matter where you go. I mean, I'm not going to settle for some crappy college, but I don't think obsessing about it is healthy either.

And I do want to do something awesome and travel.

How ya doing, buddy?

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I'm still looking around too, but I'm seriously leaning to NYU. Anyone been there?

Oooh! I visited NYU last summer, and I really liked it! Of course, being New York, it is extremely pricey, but Tisch really interested me. The only thing is that they don't have a set campus; it's spread out all over Manhattan.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.