My name is Allison. This is my last semester at Duke University.

Yeah, I've been here. I post technical equipment.

I'm Michael State University and St. Paul.

First year at Leadsville University.

I'm at University of North Carolina.

So, if you want to go to Moise College.

I'm Jasmine. I'm a freshman and I'm at Harvard University.

I'm Jasmine. I'm a freshman. I'm at Harvard University.

You guys are both Jasmine.

Can I ask you all some questions? This is for a show called Freakonomics Radio.

What? Of course. I'm an economics major and philosophy minor. Bring it.

Jeffrey Williams from East Atlanta, Georgia.

Do you think college is worth it?

I feel like if a bunch of people from the community are just setting apart every day for

three months straight and just exchange books and hat lectures, we learn much more than

we had in three years here.

I guess when I came here I was expecting, you know, I put a lot of time and effort and

money into this and like I want to get that out and it's not like looking that way right

away.

I always worry because of what the economy is like and everything if I'm going to have

a job. If there's going to be a job out there for me.

So, in today's day, college degree is what a high school diploma was, you know, decades

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