*Official* Please Graduate from College Thread

[Jurollo]

Gboro made a similar post on P5's the other day and I can not underscore this point enough.

Anyone who is in college here now or entering, please do not quit just for poker. You get so much out of college throughout the years you are there socially, academically and just in general you gain so much life experience in so many varying situations. You get to learn how to deal with all types of people, how to adapt to awkward situations, and more importantly you learn a TON about who you are as a person. This is all ancillary to the education you get too. Poker may very well not be around for ever, or at the very least not as profitable as it is now, that much is inevitable. Enjoy poker, play it with enthusiasm, learn about it, but please do not seal your fate as a poker player so young because lots of things can change and with college you gain something to fall back on if poker doesnt work out. My worst fear with the influx of online poker is that it will yield a group of young players who forego college to go pro only to find out they cant make it and then have no degree to fall back on.
Another thing is... when you finally do make it through college, you feel damn good about yourself.
~Justin