I think a lot of the value of university is providing a peer group for social and intellectual development. To the extent you hasn’t found a great group of friends at university, I think you should actively try very hard to find a group that you enjoy spending time with then lean into this. To the extent you can fill this need outside of university, it seems very reasonable to drop out.
This is the advice I’d give to my younger self: I didn’t make many great friends in college and should have tried much harder to find my niche. But I don’t think I was ready to just drop out and start working, since I hadn’t found my niche outside of university yet either. That being said, it might be a better idea for people who are more emotionally mature than me on some dimensions to “drop out and start working” even if they haven’t quite found their niche.
I’d also link to The Case Against Education. It’s probably a bit hyperbolic but I think it’s pointing at a real dynamic: a large portion of the purpose of college is signaling rather than building human capital.
I think a lot of the value of university is providing a peer group for social and intellectual development. To the extent you hasn’t found a great group of friends at university, I think you should actively try very hard to find a group that you enjoy spending time with then lean into this. To the extent you can fill this need outside of university, it seems very reasonable to drop out.
This is the advice I’d give to my younger self: I didn’t make many great friends in college and should have tried much harder to find my niche. But I don’t think I was ready to just drop out and start working, since I hadn’t found my niche outside of university yet either. That being said, it might be a better idea for people who are more emotionally mature than me on some dimensions to “drop out and start working” even if they haven’t quite found their niche.
I’d also link to The Case Against Education. It’s probably a bit hyperbolic but I think it’s pointing at a real dynamic: a large portion of the purpose of college is signaling rather than building human capital.
I agree that self study without a peer group is really problematic.
And yet so many people work from home alone.
This is surely solvable, and, I think, worth someone’s attention in solving.