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College is a lie. I believed a lie. My family, my pastor, my mentors all told me lies. "Go to college. Get the career you want. Get a higher paying job." All lies, but they didn't know. My parents and grandparents created an incentive to go to college by dangling a fund in front of me that could be used for nothing else. What a joke. Years of fraud. I believed I would be allowed to develop the skills I wanted in college. Wrong. I believed I could learn what I wanted to learn in college. Wrong. The 20th Century anti-tradition philosophy poisoned everything. My professors rejected all of my sincerest efforts. "You can't do that," they said. I had to conform to nonconformity. College is where those who can't teach you can't. Their relentless efforts to make me doubt myself, my talent and what I knew was right and beautiful in the world had an effect: a stomach ulcer and lasting depression. College makes you stupid. I graduated but was defeated. Consequently I lost my family, my car, my job, my home and my cat. The only thing I got from college was ten years older and thousands of dollars in debt. There's nothing I didn't learn in college that I couldn't have learned from the internet ten years earlier and for tens of thousands of dollars cheaper. Now I'm a homeless truck driver. I work ninety hours a week. I get four days off a month. I have nothing. I have nobody. I am living an unfulfilled life. College is where promise is withheld. College is where dreams and talent go to die. Don't do what I did, kid. Don't follow the rules your whole life. Think and do for yourself.