毕业即失业？八成大学生在浪费生命

We talked to the one of the most vocal college skeptics in a growing national debate about the value of a degree.
在日益升温的关于“学位价值何在”的全国性讨论中，我们采访了一位知名的上大学怀疑论者。

Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist and widely syndicated guru, estimates that 85% of college students are wasting their time and money on getting a degree.
佩内洛普-特兰克是《厚颜野心家》一书的作者，同时也是一位企业家，她估计，85%的大学生正在为了得到一个学位而浪费时间和金钱。

Please take this estimate with a grain of salt, as most experts will still tell most students to go to college. Trunk's reasoning is certainly provocative, however, and it may be coming into the mainstream as more students are finally deciding to pass on college.
请大家持保留意见来看待这一评估，因为绝大多数的专家依旧会建议大部分的学生去大学深造。特兰克的理论无疑非常挑衅，然而，随着越来越多的学生最终决定不去上大学，这一观点也许正在成为主流。

Trunk says you should skip college unless you're really great at school or got accepted into a top ten school. Instead "you should just go to work."
特兰克说，除非你真的学业非常好或者被排名前十的高校录取，否则你应该放弃大学学习。取而代之的是，“你应该去工作。”

In her recent article published on LinkedIn, Trunk advises young people to re-think college and focus on internships, saying that anyone can teach themselves the skills needed to be successful. She gives the example of an MIT program that gave iPads to illiterate kids in Ethiopia who then were able to teach themselves how to use it, program it and read it in English without a teacher or curriculum.
在她最近发表在社交网站Linkedin上的文章中，特兰克建议年轻人对大学学习要三思，把主要精力集中在工作实习上。她说，任何人都可以自学成功所需的技能。她例举了一个麻省理工大学做过的项目，在项目中，实验者将iPad 送给埃塞俄比亚的文盲儿童，他们就可以在没有老师或课程的指导下，自学如何使用iPad，给它编程序，阅读它的英文版。

With college costing more than ever, getting a degree may actually limit your career choices.
随着大学学费史无前例地高涨，仅为了得到一个学位可能会限制你的职业选择。