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Is college education worth it? Not only in Uzbekistan, but even in America?

In short, if you're not majoring in medicine, law, or engineering, you don't need a college. People are learning business from their broke professors. Like, what do you learn? Formulas? Calculus? Outdated charts? And you sucessfully get a "degree" for wasting your 4 years?

Diploma is also another topic. Nearly all jobs nowadays don't require diploma. They require experience and projects. If your future job doesn't require deep learning, like three majors I mentioned, you're asked for experience/projects, not a piece of paper. If you want to learn something, you can find everything on the internet for free, or for a mere money.

How about TOP universities, like Harvard or Stanford? Alright, here is the thing: these universities are on the top not because they produce geniuses. They don't. They accept ready students. They accept students that are already genius. And they support them for 4 years. So, colleges are basically not for learning. There is one benefit, though - which is networking. You surely find like-minded friends for projects and startups in a college. But you can also find the same geniuses outside in those four years.

If your ultimate goal is to be an expert in your field, university is important. But if you want to get rich, you never need it. Never. But there is another thing - family. If your parents want you to study in a college and you want to make them proud, university is a must, I believe.

Note: these are just my opinions. If you find some points to disagree, that's fine. Everybody has a different worldview)

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18.

Time has always been a curious thing; I always knew it would pass quickly, but 18 y.o felt like a distant dream. But here I am, officially an adult.

I was in the library after the classes, in silence. My mind kept going over the memories of my childhood—my first day of school, the fencing classes, the laughter, the tears —all of those moments and the carefree days of being a kid.

As I was there I recalled the days with my family, the laughter around the dinner table, and the simple joy of being together. Being 5 thousand kilometers away, studying at KAIST, was an adventure that I looked forward to, but I never realized how much I was taking my home for granted.

Perhaps it was the most nostalgic day. But I wouldn't say the day was filled with missing and sorrow. I went to the swimming pool and sauna (my favorite extracurricular rn tbh), had a lovely dinner with my friends, and received a gift from KAIST. It was a nice day, nothing to complain about.

Now, I am back to studying for finals. Only 2 weeks to go. Hopefully, I'm gonna nail it). Math and Physics are lovely subjects, they are difficult in their way but I still like something about them. General Chemistry is my biggest concern. But I still have high hopes.

I hope to read this post in the future, perhaps at 23 or 24. I will already be a different, hopefully improved person. It is going to be like opening a math textbook from primary school, and realizing that what seemed tough then has become effortless now. I believe that the obstacles I face in the years to come will one day appear equally conquerable.

I don't see my 18th birthday as a special type of day. But it does a great job of reminding me that time truly flies. It makes me reflect on the past, the 18 years that I have lived.

Oh and by the way, it turns out that in Korea, you are legally considered an adult when you are 19. But hey, I don't want to wait for another year to feel and act like an adult. Because at the end of the day, turning 18 or 19 isn't just about getting a driver's license or being able to vote.

Age is just a number, they say. And perhaps they are right.

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