Having been on the ten-year college plan for about twelve years with no degree and mounting debt, I've begun to notice a few things about higher education. Books are expensive, classes are long and the most valuable thing I've learned is how to cheat better. In a time when bachelor's degrees are the new high school diploma and forty is the new twenty, it seem being a student for life is totally chic. What isn't so chic is how education fails to prepare people for the real world. In the attempt to make students well rounded by forcing them to perform quadratic equations and to decipher Shakespeare's psyche, we've lost track of what is the most important aspect of success -- happiness. As I near degree completion and prepare to head out into the wide world of life I have to wonder if Einstein's theory of relativity is relative to anything, and if "e" does in fact equal "mc" squared, Y is there so much misery? Does higher education equal a higher propensity for happiness? Are the fundamentals of learning fundamentally different from the fundamentals of joy, and if so, why aren't we taking more classes in deciphering our selves?
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