It happens sometimes Manchester United are one of the richest teams in the world but money has not been able to buyreplace good leadership . <| sep |> I keep imagining a guy chainsawing a turkey with cranberry sauce splattering all over the family Evil Dead style . <| sep |> I did go to college , and one of the socalled elite universities it was raned # 6 in the US News and World Report Rankings when I was there . And I got a humanities degree , and one of their top schools . And hey . I cant say that I ' m sorry I did . Its just that I didn ' t have the typical college student path . As a teenager , I was homeless . I lived on the streets or crashed with friends , and always read a lot and knew I was smart . When I was 18 I started working construction for a year , made some money , learned the basics of a trade , and then decided to travel for a while . Wound up in Europe , and then lived in West Africa for a year , learned a new language , and then because I didn ' t want to wind up dumb decided to go back to the USA and go to school . Got my GED at night school , and then did two years in a community college . Got straight A ' s so then transferred and did my last two years of a four year degree at the aforementioned elite university . After that , i worked in film and TV no prior experience , just a fluke of having a gf who worked in the industry , and I had the type off degree that wasn ' t connected to any trade or skill set , and these days , I see all these kids coming out of film school with $ 200 , 000 in debt and they are working as PAs production assistants meaning they are essentially just gofers . Which is fine , but they could have just done the same thing right out of high school , and then have had 4 years of paychecks and experience during the same four years . They would know more about the actual film industry , know hundreds of people in the biz , and not be in debt . And for the esoteric things that a film class teaches , like the stylings of this or that directors films , they could actually be working on his films , or independently researching him , as opposed to hearing some college professor drone on and on about him in a classroom . For them , and so many others , the wiser choice would have been to to eschew college and just start DOING what you love . This is doubly true for just about anyone with a business degree sadly , many businesses require a college degree , although this is changing . Many businesses , especially tech , care less about degrees , and care what you can actually DO , or what you have done . As for my specific college experience , my first two years were at a community college that had small classes , and most of my teachers had doctorates and were passionate about what they taught . So much so that they ' d have us over to their houses , or meet with us in offcampus book clubs just because they loved literaturelearning . In the big expensive elite university that i went to , the price was 20 times more , and half the classes were by grad students , and the good classes were often huge , with next to no individual attention . I learned less , and paid a lot more but from society ' s point of view , the elite university was better , because that degree was considered more valuable . It really has become a case of colleges being like shopping for luxury brands . If you have the Prada Harvard or Gucci yale of college degrees , then your education is considered better , regardless of your actual knowledge or experience garnered there . Personally , I didn ' t go off to college because I wanted to learn a trade at that time i just wanted to learn for learning ' s sake , and I was a philosophy major and hey . I was young , mostly on scholarship , knew what i was getting into and did so willingly . After it was done , I ' d say some of the time was definitley a waste , and some was good , but none of it was a help in my future career or economic success . And of those things that I did learn that were of value , there were few that I couldn ' t have learned elsewhere just as well and probably more efficiently . And after graduating , I didn ' t whine about the bills , or demand that the American taxpayer repay my loans . I just got to work , and paid my bills plus I was wise enough to never get into insane amounts of debt like the way so many do today . And of the years from 18 to 24 I probably learnedexperienced the most overall in the year when i was 1920 living in Africa and probably learned the most about life and other people and human nature working alongside rednecks and intercity Black people , and illegal aliens , when i was doing construction for a year from age 1819 in other words , the years i learned the most as a young man where the two years I was not in college . So no , my critique of the college system isn ' t as an outsider who never went , its a critique from the inside , from one who ' s actually seen the college experience from a few different sides , and from one who ' s seem its flaws and waste up close and in person . p . s . as for your claims that I embrace neoNazi ideals , have a hatred for minority groups and possessing an vehement antiLGBT stance , they ' re as erroneous as your assumption that I didn ' t go to college . For the record , I dont think as an immigrant and as a Hispanic that the neonazis will have me not that i want to join . My gf is a minority different one than me and I grew up in washington DC 85 % Black at the time so most of my friends growing up were Black . Nor do I have have some antiLGBT stance . I ' ve sucked a dick or two in my life , and although I find gay stuff more boring that anything else , I have nothing against it . And whatever lifestyle anyone wants to live , as long as no one else is harmed , I say go for it . Its the ultimate in assumptive elitism to assume that allmost Trump supporters have some sort of ubiquitous racism , especially as the opposite is the truth .