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College completely expanded my understanding of the world. It was an amazing experience all-around. I didn't go straight to university though. I was a poor kid who had some behavioral problems in highschool, so I went to community college first, and then university.
My world view was pretty narrow growing up both in a world without internet, and as a child of fundamentalist Christians. My cultural anthropology class shattered so many paradigms that I was wrestling with my core identity for months. The coolest thing about college was learning about all the things that I had no idea even existed. We do not know what we don't know. Learning of a hundred different possible life-paths that I was completely ignorant of was an enriching experience.
Attending classes in person was great preparation for the working world, and it plugged me into a social network of like-minded people, so there was never a weekend that I didn't have something fun to do. I only made a couple lifelong connections in college, but the information and education I obtained was invaluable.
I had to support myself and put myself through school, working the entire time I was a student. I never did graduate despite having more units than needed to graduate due to them changing the curriculum every time I had to quit for a while to focus on not starving. But I'm still glad I put in all that effort and obtained an education. It has helped me throughout my life, and probably a little with my career too.