/lit/ - Literature

Is college a complete waste of time for an aspiring writer? I'm lucky enough I had the chance to work at a newspaper as a teenager and I've since done a good bit of freelance work. Yet all my classes seem like a total waste of time. In Intro to International Relations, for instance, we learn vocabulary. What's a norm? What's a hegemon? What's a rogue state? I learn so, so, so much more just reading in my free time and so I'm considering dropping out and getting a full-time job at a paper or something. I see no benefit in staying up until 1 a.m. doing what amounts to busy work for another two years.

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