Is college worth it?Imagine telling a student who just graduated from college that you wasted four years of hard, stressful, and, worst of all, expensive work. Unfortunately, in today's cynical society, the world is not only filled with competitors, but also greedy, money-hungry companies. The worst companies are not manufacturing or electrical companies, but colleges and universities. In Caroline Bird's essay "College is a Waste of Time and Money," she examines how college has been seen for so long as the best place to send high school graduates, regardless of whether they want to go there. go or not. She adds that students don't realize how much college costs and are wasting their parents' time and money, which is especially horrible to waste. Now that the economy is doing better since 9/11 and states have stabilized their budgetary debts, it doesn't make sense that tuition costs are higher than ever for students. When people think of college, they often think of their education as they did when they were in high school and high school. But colleges and universities are not schools. They are all businesses. The university is not funded by taxes or the government. It comes from our pockets. But other countries like Australia, England, Ireland and Germany run their colleges and universities like a high school. Everyone goes to the same college and it is paid for by government taxes. College is no longer an option, but it is vital. Competition for decent jobs is increasing, and it's almost impossible to find a well-paying job without a bachelor's degree, meaning more money is going to already wealthy universities. It's going to take a long time... middle of paper... in college or who have dropped out and are more successful than people who have their master's degrees. We all know the story of Bill Gates and how he left Harvard to start Microsoft, one of the richest companies in the world. Sure, Bill Gates was too smart to go to college, but there are a few other names who are more successful than adults with college degrees. Woody Allen was expelled from New York University and the City College of New York. Steven Jobs, owner of Apple computers, left Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after only one semester and David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, left the University of Texas and Brooklyn College in New York . College has its good and bad sides. , but tuition fees must decrease in public and private schools. College should be the best time of everyone's life, but money shouldn't be a distraction.