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Chris Guillebeau on life goals, work, and travel as alt-university [encore]

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Is There a Need Not to Be a College?

i think there's an extent to which it need not be education need not be this zero sum thing, that you really can, in a very subtle way, encounter the world and give yourself options. Yesd, in a way, it's easy to slam universities, im, just because they're trying to do well. But i think people or people are smarter than we give them credit for. They're more adaptable than we give us credit for. So, no, there's very little downside. If you don't like it, do go somewhere else. If you discover that you really u dont hate travel, id want to go back to wherever you were, then that's what

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