If you treat your time in university as job training, then maybe it's not worth doing. But if you treat it as a time to learn about a whole lot of new things - including all those core subjects that so many 19-year-olds gripe about - and a time to dabble socially in environments you might not otherwise have, then it's a different matter.
The post makes reference to the author enjoying being part of a fraternity. Indeed, his blog subtitle is "the musings of an undergrad fraternity man". This is part of his identity for the moment, and now he wants to walk away from it because it's not helping him careerwise.
TL;DR: if you think education is just about your career, then you missed the point somewhere along the way.
TL;DR: if you think education is just about your career, then you missed the point somewhere along the way.
I agree, and you've touched on something about the changes in how college is viewed in general. College used to be about education, and laying a foundation for a lifetime of learning. Nowadays it seems to have shifted to be more about sports and partying.
I think going to college is in general a good thing, but it's up to the student to make the most out of the experience. That includes picking the right college, and not going into lots of debt just to go a party school. Perhaps most eighteen year old kids are simply not ready to make those sorts of life changing decisions.
The post makes reference to the author enjoying being part of a fraternity. Indeed, his blog subtitle is "the musings of an undergrad fraternity man". This is part of his identity for the moment, and now he wants to walk away from it because it's not helping him careerwise.
TL;DR: if you think education is just about your career, then you missed the point somewhere along the way.