Living the ‘college adjacent’ lifestyle

At the end of high school, I read a book called The Case Against Education by economics professor Bryan Caplan. He makes the claim that college (as well as K-12 education) is only about credentialing individuals in order to ‘signal’ their intelligence, but that credentials aren’t actually needed. He even suggests skipping out on crazy expensive college tuition and instead opt to hang around a college campus and drop in on whatever college classes that interest you. He insisted that no professor would care if you decided to do this. (After all, <a href="https://www.reed.edu/steve-jobs.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Jobs was heavily influenced by a calligraphy class he audited at Reed College </a>after he dropped out.) Although I decided to get my degree (because unfortunately, signaling does continue to mean something, whether we like it or not), Caplan’s advice stuck in my brain, and it contributed to my decision to relocate to a college town after graduation. And I know I’m not alone. <a href="https://medium.com/@loranvandenbosch/living-the-college-adjacent-lifestyle-a31d618371ca">Visit Now</a>