... semester wasn't good at all, I left with a GPA of 2.02 got three Fs. Over the break I actually thought I motivated myself for this semester and had plans of coming back staying focus and do well. I was depressed last semester, cried many times and spent time searching the net about alternatives and complaining to my peers and was considering not going back. Now am back , third week and I feel almost the same. I feel like stop going to college. I don't want to look on what others around me doing and I don't think I want to return either. I just want a good future though, one that I have a good home and live comfortably. I am doing the sciences at school right now not what I wanted to do, I want to be a doctor and I've been accepted since month to study in a Caribbean country through self financing program. I don't even feel excited no more , I don't know how to feel , that's being away 7 years from Home, not sure I'd every that. I seem to be a person that can't manage pressure. I hate being away from home as well. I am currently using student loan for finance that's kinda the down side too but I just don't believe I should be going school if am genuinely unhappy. Confused
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You are confused because everybody says you need college to get a good job and be happy, and that is not true. The only important thing you get from college years is an address book: professional contacts in your field. If you have not chosen a field, or if you take a job where professional contacts don't matter, then all that money spent on college is wasted. If you are not sure what to do with your life, or if you did not get perfect preparation in your upbringing, college is a lousy place to try to sort it out.
Get a simple job and a cheap pad within walking distance. That is so you don't have to waste your money on transportation. Save half of everything you earn. Yes, half. To start, keep your savings in gold or silver coins which you do not store in anybody else's vault. (IOW hide them at home.) Spend your evenings studying investment books at the public library. When you are smart enough then you can make other investments. If you earn ten bux an hour and save half, in only ten years you will have A HUNDRED THOUSAND BUX not counting interest or capital gains or paper profits: only principle. There is no other plan that will give you a net worth above zero in only ten years. And there is no school that will teach you any such thing.
Does this plan work? Andrew Carnegie worked five years, saved his wages, and then put it all into a tech stock: telegraph. You might have heard the name. His hobby was building concert halls and libraries.