Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why You Shouldn’t Go To University Right Away

12 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker advises young people to postpone enrolling in university and instead spend time traveling and exploring the world to discover their true passions. He argues that societal and parental pressures push students into higher education prematurely, often leading to oversaturated university environments, substantial student debt, and mismatched degrees that are unrelated to their eventual careers. The speaker reflects on his own experience of studying a field he no longer uses and incurring debt, suggesting that a period of travel and self‑discovery would have been more valuable. The overall message is a call to resist the “lies of the system” that equate university attendance with success, and to prioritize real‑world experiences before committing to a lifelong academic path.

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Don't rush into university. Go and travel a little bit. Travel the world. See what it is that you actually— you're actually passionate about. Don't fall for the lies of the system that like you need to go to university to be successful. At the time, maybe my parents thought that it was the right thing for me to do because that's an opportunity that they missed in their childhood and they thought like you need to do this. But I feel like a lot of parents at that time in my generation thought the same thing and then universities got oversaturated. Go travel, go experience the world, go experience different things and see what you're truly passionate about before you make make that decision at that age. You're not mature enough to make a decision on what you want to study to do for the rest— do for the rest of your life. The things I studied, I don't do anything with those at the moment, and I went into a lot of debt as a result. And it would have been much better to travel, find what I'm passionate about, and then start working towards that.