The thing that irks me about the cost of college isn't that it costs a lot, it isn't ideal that the cost can be so prohibitive but if someone can really get great value from college it can be worth it. The thing that irks me is that from a very young age we're told that if you want to achieve something in life, if you want to be someone then you NEED to go to college and if you don't you're a failure and you're destined to work in McDonalds until the day that you die. This means that people who won't get any real value from college end up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (that they don't have and don't understand the repercussions of spending because they're a teenager when they commit to it) and become at a very big disadvantage in life because that's what they were told they had to do.