Comic #2672: 2012-09-09

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Hey kids! Welcome to college orientation!"

Panel 2: Person 2: "I want to make something perfectly clear: you may think you’re here to learn. WRONG."

Panel 3: Person 2: "You are here to do WHATEVER for 3-5 years in order to get a piece of paper that is essentially a claim check for 20% more lifetime earnings. Meanwhile, enjoy these free novelty school spirit hats."

Panel 4: Person 1: "What if we invented a bunch of things to do while you wait?"

Panel 5: Person 2: "You can take classes in literary theory, business management, or pretty much anything that starts with ‘studies’ or has ‘art’ in the middle."

Panel 6: Person 2: "Or just do the old-fashioned thing and take a massively grade-inflated course in law, civics, or science."

Panel 7: Person 1: "Isn’t college supposed to be about education?"

Panel 8: Person 2: "Yeah, right. In the age of free information, you need to pay a small fortune to live in a dormitory… surrounded by drunk teenagers… so you can get educated."

Panel 9: Person 1: "Well, if college is really so pointless, maybe I’ll just go straight to the private sector."

Panel 10: Person 2: "The easier college gets, the dumber you look for not having a degree."

Panel 11: Person 1: "Can I have one of those foam hats?"

Panel 12: Person 2: "Of course! Your scholarship already paid for it."

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