Keeping It Real About College

So I will call this one Keeping it Real About College. It is written from the perspective of an older student a year out from finishing his educational nonsense. So what are the pros and cons of going to school at a particular age?
    So the young kids have advantages. They have dorm living and such so they can focus on school, and a lot of them have parents wiping their ass. But in reality they have no clue who they are. They don't know how to play the game, and I know the game. I'm the Mastermind. Remember the Megadeth song. Okay, that was self-absorbed, back to the pro et contra. They have a lot of energy but a lot of them will just end up fucking up, partying and changing majors. If they graduate, they will have piles of debt and nothing to show for it but some STIs and a misdemeanor record. I have seen this happen so many times. Most people never even use the degree in the field. If these kids work, they get experience and if they are worth a fuck they move up and make the degree irrelevant. If they don't they get out of school with no idea how the world works and end up at your local Shrink crying to get some Zannies because Mommy and Daddy lied about the degree being worth a damn and being a ticket into the middle class. The middle class does not exist. College feels like adult-day care, where people dump their kids because they don't know how to tell them to grow up, and it gets them out of the house and allows Papa and Momma bear to get frisky again and join that swingers site they have always wanted to be on. Parents will also try to live their dreams through their kids, and this is a big factor in them pressuring their children to go to college. Many older people have their head up their ass when it comes to economic reality. Keep in mind that everyone is somewhat full of shit most of the time, unless they are swilling salt-water for regularity.
    As an older student, you will have few of these problems. You may have to adapt to academia, but so will younger students. You will have had to work before, so you know what you want to do. These kids probably won't exist to you with their weak ass immature problems. So you can focus. On the flip side, you will be juggling work and school. But you will have had a lot of fun when you were younger, so this should not be a distracting factor.
    Some of your professors will seem like twatbuckets, because of a lot of them are, being people who played by the rules and never worked a day in their lives. But you will handle their shit and keep going.
    It's a lot of paperwork and red-tape. Being the smartest person in the room is especially odd when a person in that room is someone with a doctorate. There are some fields that will give you a job on completion of the four-year degree. There is a lot in the nursing field because these Jabba the Hut looking folks called our fellow citizens love their burgers.
    As far as K-12: I would just fire all the teachers, repeal compulsory schooling, hire new teachers. You could force some vocational or life training onto high schools, and make sure they give kids that option. I would standardize college credits across the board, at least across the state and maybe even include a course on navigating higher education. You could start doing 'dual-credit' as part of the regular graduation plans. College level science and math is more advanced than high school, but nothing else is at the college level outside of the last 30 credit hours you will take out of a 120-hour degree plan. It is the same stuff, done again.   
    Here is pro-tip: CLEP out of the nonsense. Hopefully, you get some AP done before you go. You can often check your books out from the college library. Amazon Prime is your friend on shipping. If you want to do business, become a manager somewhere. If you want to do technology, get a certification. There are states that have the balls to let you become a lawyer without a degree. If you want to become an artist, just do it.
    About that debt. Well, there is military service, Americorps, occupational programs where available. I'm still waiting on someone to 'check the bank' and when he gets before the judge tell them that he was just trying to take care of his college debt.