re: How long is too long to be an undergrad? + opinions

You're just making me want to go to LSU more

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Yeah... If you only take freshman level classes.

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You take a full load of freshman level classes and it easy as shite.

I wish I did that

curious as to what hard college classes you were taking at community college that shite all over the freshman classes at lsu?

With breaks for military service and such, 7 years and 10 months would be too long.

Ergo, 7 years and 9 months wouldn't be.

90% of fail outs don't actually fail out, they just see the writing on the wall. You started looking for a job knowing it would mean leaving school. People don't do that if things are going swimmingly.

You DID say you were feeling burnt out, in your first year of community college. And yet you ignore this reality for sake of a pie in the sky hypothetical of "maybe I can get the grades to go to a university if I get straight As in spite of getting worn down by freshman level classes!"


But lets say you are different.

My father once told me a gem about college education that I have come to appreciate more and more as the years go by: Most employers don't care what it is in or what you know as far as a degree goes. Their reason for wanting a degree is that they want evidence you can commit yourself to a long term goal when no one is forcing you every step of the way. Even when steps seem stupid and pointless. In short, tangible evidence of some degree of discipline.

And what you have clearly stated is that you chose one path, bailed on it at the FIRST sign of adversity telling yourself you could do better for yourself elsewhere, and now you are considering bailing on THAT to go back to the first.

Employers typically don't have time or patience to deal with that wishy-washy behavior, especially when rooted with rash decisions from the individual not deciding to nut up.



And speaking of nutting up.....what the frick is this thread? Either college is the right choice for your career, or it isn't. Pick your path and stick to it. College isn't a goal, it is acquiring the means to attain that goal. Going to a message board asking about opinions of how long is too long to be in college is weak sauce, and indicative of you continuing the thought processes that set you up for failure. It takes as long as it takes and who gives a frick as long as you get yours.

Or you can just keep on daydreaming about how the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence.

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I'd like to see the median income of non stem degrees versus people with trades like electricians, welders, carpenter's, etc

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When I graduated HS in 1997 just getting a degree was valuable. There were many jobs in which the requirement was "a 4 year degree". It didn't matter what you had a degree in. The difference between having a college degree and not having a college degree was huge. So I think people who are.. in their late 30s and older, who have non-stem degrees will skew the median income a little bit.

But it would be interesting to see the median income of non-stem degrees of people 35 or younger compared to those with a trade in the careers you listened.

If I was coming out of HS in today's world unless I really wanted to be an engineer, doctor, lawyer, teacher or work in the media, it would be more valuable to go to a trade school in drafting/designing, coding or something like that. The days of "just having a degree" are over.

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harder than freshman level

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How would you even know this?????

Every person I know that went to CC basically said it was embarrassing to have to take those classes. That they regretted how they spent their high school time not necessarily because they didn't get into LSU immediately, but because they had to take what felt like special education classes at BRCC.

History.

Why?
Learn something you will get paid to do.
Libraries are full of history books. Read for fun at night after your real job.