I graduated college loan-free, and with 4 years of hard lessons in leadership and self discipline. I credit my time in service for the man I’ve become and would recommend it heartily to anyone with a sense of adventure and duty, plus the rare capacity to just shut up during the occasional episodes of nonsense.
I recognize that this isn’t the popular opinion on here, but I doubt most of you have actually done it. I have. It was worth it, and I’d do it again.
I am truly glad that it worked for you and your opinion does not have to be popular to be valid. I went to college on student loans but when I went, college was significantly cheaper so I had it paid off fairly quickly. I recognize that I came from some privilege. But whatever privilege I came from evaporated once I became disabled after suffering a serious mental health episode. It is in this light that I see individual people’s experiences as valid.
I graduated college loan-free, and with 4 years of hard lessons in leadership and self discipline. I credit my time in service for the man I’ve become and would recommend it heartily to anyone with a sense of adventure and duty, plus the rare capacity to just shut up during the occasional episodes of nonsense.
I recognize that this isn’t the popular opinion on here, but I doubt most of you have actually done it. I have. It was worth it, and I’d do it again.
I am truly glad that it worked for you and your opinion does not have to be popular to be valid. I went to college on student loans but when I went, college was significantly cheaper so I had it paid off fairly quickly. I recognize that I came from some privilege. But whatever privilege I came from evaporated once I became disabled after suffering a serious mental health episode. It is in this light that I see individual people’s experiences as valid.