@alex TRUE. I am very conflicted about my college experience. About half the classes were useless, and it seems like the workload actually broke some of the students (it was not uncommon to see people crying silently on the couches in the hall during project submissions), and I am also loaded up with a bunch of debt now, but unlike a lot of schools it had a sort of boot-camp "we're in this together" mentality that forged the intensity for work I have now. I go back and forth a lot on whether I'd be successful without that last part happening.