Add-on: a bit of evidence in favor of college being pretty much just what you make of it, and nothing magic: "In November 2002, the Quarterly Journal of Economics published a landmark paper <https://www.nber.org/papers/w7322> by the economists Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger that reached a startling conclusion.

As of now, I have been reading a majority of my materials from either the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Philly Inquirer, or Curbed.