Stop! Don't Go To College

September, 1975

Before you Pack your bags and buy your beanie, stop and look around you: Didn't that cabdriver just say he had a Ph.D. in micropaleontology? isn't that a Phi Beta Kappa key there on the bus boy's apron? Aren't those two winos in the alley arguing about the epistemological implications of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason? Are you sure you know what you're doing?College used to be a great place to duck the Army and fuck off for four years, after which you would emerge, well laid, clutching that magi...