I think I’m speaking the-the thoughts of many students currently in college or beginning to enroll when I ask, “The fuck am I doing?” Quite frankly that's a great question to ask yourself, and if you haven't you should probably consider doing so fast. Seriously, stop reading and ask yourself that, and really think about what your answer is.

Why? Well, one reason is college is more expensive than it's ever been in history. Ever. A sure college is a place that you can achieve higher learning, where if you go far enough no one will know how dorky and madly in love you were with your 7th-grade English teacher, in my defense, I can guarantee half the class felt the same. It’s also that place where a lot of people can unknowingly set themselves up with a lifetime worth of debt and penny-pinching for a degree in a field they may not even have a career in.

Don’t take this the wrong way but going to college to receive a higher education is pretty overrated. I know what you're thinking something along the lines of , “ if going to college is over-rated, how come people with a college degree make significantly more money than those who didn’t?” Questions like that are inert when arguing against my stance, depending on your definition of what is considered a higher education. I see it as learning in-depth about particular subject or field, others see it as a college degree.

Higher education doesn’t equate to a high paying job, a college degree might. No guarantees. So ask yourself if you're in college or about to enroll, “The fuck am I doing?’’ If your major is literature or philosophy, anything in the humanities, is college necessary?

I’m a literature major myself, and I’m pretty sure I could learn in depth about Voltaire, Thoreau and Jean-Paul Sartre without a professor assigning me their books to read. Not to undermine the conventional classroom but you can get similar lessons on websites like Coursea, and oedb without going into debt and becoming a connoisseur of ramen noodles.