College Rebellion

Hey y'all - I've updated my contact and portfolio page over at JessicaBarker.com! http://www.jessicabarker.com/about/contact-and-portfolio/

Contact and Portfolio First of all, the basics: - Email: JessicaAtJessicaBarkerDotCom - Phone: Please e-mail for phone number - Contact Form: .com (aka easier way of e-mailing me) If you would like to s...

Talk about some gap years.

http://whnt.com/2015/05/12/95-year-old-man-finishes-college-after-starting-75-years-ago/

95-year-old man finishes college after starting 75 years ago MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (AP) -- A 94-year-old man will be one of the oldest graduates in the West Virginia University history when he receives his diploma Sunday. The school says in a press release that...

I'm Unschooled. Yes, I Can Write.: I Don't Want to Build My Own Curriculum, I just Want to Live...

http://www.collegerebellion.com/3-reasons-why-i-think-making-it-public-is-a-bad-idea/

3 Reasons Why I Think Making it Public is a Bad Idea One thing I keep reading over and over again about goal-setting is that it is important to make your goals known to other people - that way they can hold you accountable to them. One way it has bee...

My first paper that I wrote upon returning to college - a review on one of my least favorite movies, Avatar:

http://www.jessicabarker.com/2015/05/10/avatar-the-movie-a-review/

Avatar - The Movie: A Review Every time I am forced to watch this movie (I have fun friends), which is to say every time I have watched this movie, I fall asleep. Perhaps multiple times. If I am not sleeping, my mind makes gre...

New and Improved (?) home page detailing why you should read the new book! http://www.collegerebellion.com/

I don't know why it doesn't look nicer on here, but the website looks pretty good... :P

(no title) Are you considering rebelling against college to pursue your path your way? Is it pi***ng you off to hear every peer and adult in your life telling you there’s only one secret formula for “lifelong success”?

Need a fresh, inspiring read to ward off cabin fever? Check out my book on college alternatives - it might change your life, just sayin'.

Life Without College: The Method You are considering rebelling against college to pursue your own path your way. You have very personal reasons for doing so, probably a lot of anger and frustration reasons. Do any of the following predicaments sound familiar? - You know what you like doing, but you could never pick one thing to ...

http://www.collegerebellion.com/college-vs-not-college-its-not-the-only-question/

"College vs. Not College?" - It's not the only question!! It is really annoying when I propose that somebody not go to college and they think I mean NEVER go to college. Considering I don't know what the future holds for me or anybody else, I don't propos...

It's live, everybody!

http://www.collegerebellion.com/announcement-the-method-is-here/

Announcement - The Method is Here! Hey College Rebels! My new book Life Without College: The Method is now live, available in ebook and print! From the back cover: "You are considering rebelling against college to pursue your own pa...

See this book? It's happening. Aiming for Dec 1. http://www.collegerebellion.com/the-method/

The Method - NEW Ebook! Greetings, College Rebel Earthlings! I have written a new book, Life Without College - The Method. This little book is exactly that: it explains the method of the life without college. It will be a...

3 rewrites, 4 revisions, 3 edits, and 11 formatting 'drafts' later, Life Without College: The Method is finally on the last leg of the race for publication! I will be selling it for a modest fee once I have it out there, but here's a sneak peak back to the plug for very first 'edition' that I was offering for free:

http://www.collegerebellion.com/the-method-free-e-book/

Life Without College - The Method (free e-book!) Greetings, College Rebel Earthlings! A few days ago - though I forgot to make an announcement, so we are going to pretend it was today - I finished an e-book called Life Without College - The Metho...

My latest article on College Rebellion stemmed from reading this article a few days ago:

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/my-fellow-americans-its-time-to-boycott-college/

Read it and form your own opinion, then check out my post on it: http://www.collegerebellion.com/boycotting-college-vs-changing-college/

My Fellow Americans, It’s Time to Boycott College My fellow Americans, Let me tell you a tale. A friend of mine was recently laid off. He's a hardworking kind of guy, so he decided to forgo the customary process of sitting around his house complaining on Facebook that no employers are knocking on his...

http://www.collegerebellion.com/boycotting-college-vs-changing-college/

Boycotting College vs. Changing College We can talk all we want to about how college should stop doing this and start doing that, or how it just should not be a requirement, etc. etc. We have been talking all we want to for years now. Ar...

‘The Art of Self-Directed Learning’ Coming Soon! Blake Boles, author of College Without High School, Better Than College, and founder of the travel program Unschool Adventures, is releasing a new book, The Art of Self-Directed Learning.

Hmmm, Nanodegrees... yet another form of skipping college for tech-minded people, but perhaps one small step towards something similar for the rest of us? http://www.unschooler.com/2014/07/introducing-nanodegrees/

Introducing Nanodegrees! Can’t afford a 4-year degree from a university but want to put in the work to learn skills that get you qualified for better, higher paying jobs? Been to college but feel unprepared to work in your field in the Real World? The answers to your prayers may be just around the corner. The online educ…

It's not all about debt and minimum-wage jobs!! This moderately resourceful article has many links to, like, a bunch of other articles and resources.

http://www.collegerebellion.com/debt-and-the-college-debate/

Debt and the College Debate The Rethinking College movement really took off in late 2010 / early 2011. We were asking ourselves, why get bogged down with college as being the only path to success? What if there was greater ...