<p>Hi guys!</p>
<p>So I have a friend who graduated last year with a Masters somewhere in speech therapy or something. This year, at the age of 30 years old, she had a stroke and completely forgot everything including english. I mean working hard since high school and paying the education all the way towards the end of her college years, do you consider it a waste? I mean, a college degree is all about advancing your career later in life and now it’s gone.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s awful.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think it depends on how engaged she was in her studies. If she genuinely enjoyed her area of study while she was going along, then I wouldn’t say it was that much of a waste. On the other hand, if she was indifferent/hated her major, and had the sole intention of getting a decent job out of it, then yes, I’d say it was a waste.</p>
<p>No, because college is about the experience and education, not a degree that’s worth more than the paper it’s printed on. Besides, if she’s thirty then she had(guessing) five years after graduating doing her job.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it is a waste because it helped her learn stuff and become the person she is. Without it, she might not be the person she is or know the people she knows. Everything isn’t about longterm gratification, it’s also about shortterm/instant gratification, which I’m sure she got out of her studies. She learned about the thing that interests her, which should be fulfilling enough.</p>
<p>My best wishes go to her and I hope she has a full recovery.</p>
<p>I guess with the degree she still be better off than sombody who didnt have one, when she gets well again.</p>
<p>I really wish her the best.</p>
<p>Ive had friends die there last year of undergrad. Was that a waste idk. Im sure they enjoyed it.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is a waste.
A waste would imply that she got absolutely know benefits from it (whether those benefits be in the workforce or purely experience).
Hopefully she got a lot of out her studies, and just because she doesn’t remember it now does not discount for what happened in the past.</p>
<p>I’d consider it a waste.</p>
<p>College is like a 4-5 year vacation, so it was defiantly better than going to work everyday.</p>
<p>Definitely not a waste. She probably didn’t reap all the benefits of her education, but I’m sure it was still a worthwhile experience. Quite unfortunate though.</p>
<p>“Ive had friends die there last year of undergrad. Was that a waste idk. Im sure they enjoyed it.”</p>
<p>Someone told me that life isn’t really all about college. It’s better to enjoy each moment of your life, living day by day. Who knows what will happen tommorow. Something Alcoholic Anonymous teaches me.</p>
<p>I consider it a waste if it’s a human choice not to utilize a resource to its fullest extent. If she had graduated and worked at McDonald’s instead of doing something with her degree, then yes, it’s a waste. But what happened to her was not a choice; it was just something that happens in life.</p>
<p>It depends on her reason’s for going to college. If she saw college as a hardship she had to put up with for the sake of a latter job or career, then yes, it was a horrible waste of time she could have spent doing something she liked before this happened. If she enjoyed learning the subject she studied, or if she had fun in the social atmosphere provided by college, and would not have done anything else with the years she spent there, then it was not a waste.</p>
<p>It goes back to opportunity cost. Each year spent in college is a year that cannot be spent doing something else. Is there something else she would have much rather done with those years than attend college, for whatever reason, that she gave up because she thought college would lead to some later benefit which she won’t have now? If the answer is yes, then it was all a huge waste.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to remember that she didn’t know she’d have a stroke while she was getting her education. so it is not fair to go back and term it a waste when at the time it would have been something productive and responsible.
otherwise everything one does in life would be a waste because you would just die at the end of it!</p>
<p>But we DO know that we are going to die at the end of our lives…</p>
<p>If you mean it was a waste because she didn’t have enough time to enjoy the fruits of her lifelong education, then maybe it was a waste.</p>
<p>^^ 2nd.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how this is even a question, though, since it should be more about the future than the past. Does it even matter wether it was a “waste” or not?</p>
<p>Well I mean here’s an example, If we live in a world where insurance doesn’t exist and you bought a ferrari and the next day someone totaled it or stoled it, was it a waste that you bought the car even though you didn’t know it was going to be stolen or destroyed the next day?</p>
<p>In different ways, I think it’s like an analogy of my friend’s situation but then again I feel sympathy, but then hey everything in life is a waste if this was a waste?</p>
<p>Yeah, that would be a waste. It takes a lot of money to educate someone. That investment is basically nulled.</p>