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Why a Law Degree Today is Worthless & Financial Insanity
Paul Campos is a law professor at the University of Colorado. Surprisingly, he is also the author of the book Don’t Go to Law School (Unless). You might say Campos is the leading “doom and gloom prophet” of the legal profession. He has been warning people about the risk of attending law school since at […]
Continue readingMore Strong Evidence College Degrees Are Crazy Worthless
The “Perspective” section of the June 2, 2013 Denver Post leads with the following question: Cheating Epidemic? The column is quite good, but the statistics are what I’m interested in. Pulling from a variety of sources, The Post reports the following figures: 60.8% of students have admitted to cheating 3.41 is the GPA of students […]
Continue readingIs Your Schooling Interfering with Your Education?
Yesterday (6/21) a reader compared my writing to Mark Twain’s. He wrote (via Twitter): “don’t know if it’s the topic of death that brings it outta you, but today’s & the Monk/coffin post are funny. I mean Twain funny.” Needless to say, I was quite flattered. Speaking of Twain, here’s one of his quotes that’s […]
Continue readingPerpetual Students, Perpetual Debt
I recently read an anonymous comment from a person who is going back to college after spending two years buying expensive products from Internet marketing gurus. He/she writes, The light at the end of *my* tunnel is that losing two years of my life to these jokers has made me serious for the first time […]
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