What is the most important thing to take from college?

Q. What is the most important thing to take from college?

A. A military commission. Nothing has more of an impact than taking the officer's oath and having your gold 2nd Lieutenant bars pinned on you...after graduating from college.
It is a culmination of time, dedication and effort from four years of work and study that is the college experience.

 

A perfected beer pong throw.

 

Q. What is the most important thing to take from college?

A. How to go into serious debt and quite possibly, depending on your minority status and whether its an election year, not have to do much to get some meaningless degree and possibly have someone else foot the bill for most of it. These are invaluable skills in a "progressive" society.

 

And the art of flipping a cup.

 

It's different for every person. You take away from it what you want. You've got to work hard or you'll get nothing... Except for debt.

 

Obviously, knowledge in your chosen field. Contacts if you have the opportunity. Secondary skills are learning to live on your own, solve problems and make day in day out decisions without a parent over your shoulder. You should learn how to deal with people on a more adult and professional level by the time you're about to graduate. Basically, the person you were when you started and the person accepting the degree should be very different, hopefully more mature, knowledgeable, organized, responsible and most importantly, EMPLOYABLE.

If not, you can always go join an OWS rally and complain how unfair the real world is, begging for all that money you just wasted to be comped at everyone elses expense=)