Ranting to /dev/null

This is the kind of person who shouldn't go to college

If, like this woman, your idea "college" consists of a philosophy degree at a county community college, you shouldn't have pursued higher education any more than she should have. Why? Because she's now crippled by debt for a degree which hasn't increased her marketability one cent.

There isn't anything wrong with that. If you get a degree, like philosophy, with approximately zero use outside the academy, you should not be surprised when no one outside the academy wants to hire you. Especially if you're at a fourth-tier place like a community college. Community colleges are fine places to get technical degrees, especially two-year associates degrees and training certificates, but anyone who thinks that a community college degree is a good place to start an academic career is lacking certain knowledge that a community college degree won't fix.

All college majors are not created equal. All college degrees aren't either. If I hadn't gone on to law school, I'd be stuck making less than $30k a year, tops. If you get an engineering or nursing degree, yeah, you can get a reasonably well-paying job straight out of college. If you get a degree in the humanities, prepare to go to grad school. And unless your undergraduate degree is worth a damn (read "Not a community college degree), you aren't going to get into any grad schools, and unless your undergraduate degree is actually respectable (read "I went to a college with an average SAT north of 1200), you aren't going to get into any grad schools worth attending.

That's just the way it is, folks. Deal with it. If you can't do college work, you're better off trying for one of the trades that actually does pay something. I think it's absolutely criminal that 1) the higher education industry offers completely useless facsimiles of college degrees to segments of the population that could never earn a real one, and 2) Congress facilitates access to education by allowing debt loads to spiral completely out of control. Even assuming I do get a job upon graduation, I, as a lawyer, wil be paying off debt for years to come.