College is indentured servitude

Absolutely nothing about the way we pay for higher education in this country makes sense. Like many Americans my age, I took on a decent-sized amount of debt to attend college for no good reason (it was what my girlfriend at that time was doing). I don't totally regret those four years: I played the best poker of my life, got very good at the drinking version of Mario Kart (always use Wario), and acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of Dinosaur Jr's catalogue. I also spent a lot of time...