College, what the rest of the world might call university, has value beyond paychecks.   I know it is popular to look down on higher education these days, but there are real personal advantages.  Anyone leaving a proper university at least knows how to read and write.  That cannot be said of today&#x27;s highschool students.<p>I truly enjoy being able to follow science even though is has nothing to do with my field.  The ability to pick up and journal on astronomy and understand everything it has to say is something I could not have developed at a vocational school.  A couple months of in a hard-math stellar astronomy course yields a lifetime of enjoyment.