Will college help me get a job or is a college education useless?

Discuss interesting things that have happened to you lately, items of general interest, or topics that do not fall into one of the categories below.

Share tips on finding reasonable tuition, applying for scholarships, making the most of your budget, and more.

Tips and answers about GPAs, standardized testing, applications, essays, and more.

Do you know exactly what you want to be when you grow up? Do you have no idea? Perhaps you're somewhere in the middle?

Could trade school or a career with on-the-job training be a better option?

What's the best college/university or technical/trade school you've come across for tuition rates? campus activities? housing? specific degree programs? a cool mascot?

Discuss interesting things that have happened to you lately, items of general interest, or topics that do not fall into one of the categories below.

You're learning so much! Your time is well spent! These are the best years of your life! Tell us all about it, please.

Do you feel like you're headed straight for a dead end?

What are the potential pros and cons of cutting your losses and dropping out now?

So, what are you majoring in? No idea? Thinking of changing? What about adding a minor?

Do you feel it would have been better to get some real work experience than to complete courses toward an unfinished degree?

Discuss plans to return to school, sooner or later.

Should I go back? Should I start over? Should I cut my losses and forget about college?

Online or in a classroom? Nursing or computer programming? What are you thinking about? What have you already looked into?

Have you found your trade school training just as useless as a college degree?

Share your success stories from pursuing a career training program.

We've all been there: how has the unemployment epidemic spread to your family?

Countless recent college grads find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. With unemployment rates soaring, that shiny new degree may be as useful as any other trophy to put on the mantle and ignore.

Share job offers, jobs wanted, or tips on great job search sites.

Are you working but in a field completely unrelated to your degree? How much good is that piece of paper really doing for you?

Some jobs just require a minimum amount of education, regardless of the subject matter. (If you had known, you could've taken more art and cooking classes!)

There must be a few people out there who studied exactly what they wanted to and are doing exactly what they wanted to do. Right?

Hindsight is 20-20; you got the degree you wanted, you got the job you wanted, you...should've chosen more carefully. What you wanted is lousy.