Alternative medicine feels good, it feels right - and college feels the same way. Feelings aside, both promise a better future with the integrity of a politician.
After reading a handful of esteemed blogs praising the medicinal benefits of your herbal cocktail, taking that gulp of ginseng tea to wash down a grape-sized multivitamin feels great! You don't really understand the casual connection between your new diet and improved health, but you do it anyway... because it feels great! As far as I know, nobody's died of a ginseng and fish oil overdose, so there's probably little to no harm in introducing this placebo-induced high to your daily routine. The tragic problem with alternative medicine is its ability to distract unhealthy people from seeking out more reliable health solutions.
College distracts people from developing skills with a price tag. After spending 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars, students graduate sicker than when they started. College feels great, but it's filled with empty promises.
College is more insidious than alternative medicine, it makes alternative medicine look like Honest Abe. From the moment you enter the education system, you're told graduating from a prestigious college is the holy grail. Your friends, family, media, and most importantly, old suit-wearing men with graying hair have promised that you need college to make money. Fresh out of high school, you'd be foolish and irrational to consider an alternative to college. While attending college it's even harder to realize how unproductive you are. Every day you walk into class with 20 to 400 other students who never question the economic consequences of their history degree. Also doesn't help that all your professors appear smart, dignified and well-dressed. It's all so frighteningly convincing.
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