Is a degree worth having?  Yes, but it's worth less than the amount of time and money that goes into it, particularly if all you're going for is, say, a bachelor's degree, which at present seems to be taking a minimum of 10 years for sighted individuals to pay off.  Right here, you might be tempted to argue that as blind and vision impaired individuals who gain assistance through agencies such as the division for blind services and so on we have nothing to worry about, but we do.  Fail and your overall GPA drops.  Fail enough and your GPA drops enough to consequently affect how much you will be receiving financially from any institution.  As a blind person in a majorly sighted world, you will fail at least one class if you're in a college or university that does not provide adequately for you, given that professors have many students to deal with and only do the bare minimum to accommodate you; sometimes less than that.  Books change usually on a yearly basis, creating a nightmare for offices that provide services to people with disabilities as they struggle with the task of keeping up to date and providing braille and or other accessible material.  if you don't have the assignments and material needed to complete said assignments, you cannot complete them.  You fail the class, wait until next year to take it and tell yourself there will be a new professor to take it with who might be more willing to work with you.  The year comes in; you walk in with your book in hand, confident that it'll all work out, until you discover that your book is worthless because the book has been updated, along with all your notes which would have served you at least a little better last year with said book.  You've set yourself back on at least one class you could be taking and have to extend your graduation goal a little longer, for nothing.  Fail again and the college or university might just consider suspending you for a year, which means you won't be taking classes to make up for the lost hours of priceless credits you need to transfer to a better university, or, to put it more simply, it's time to start over again.
"But,"  You say, "I've managed to get into a more prestigious college and or university..."  Have you?  Filled out all their paperwork?  Received an acceptance letter?  If the answer is no to the latter, they have no problem rejecting you; it's still a win win situation for them since now you're a statistic they can boast about who was attracted to their institution.  You did receive the acceptance letter?  Congratulations; I hope your family isn't poor and or that your service provider gives said college a ton of money on a regular basis, else your chances of staying in are less than those of more wealthy candidates who can provide more money to colleges and universities that want money to stay open and redecorate and keep going through professors faster than some people go through underwear, many of which are unqualified undergraduates trying to stay in college and struggling to pay off their own debts.
maybe you should cheat a bit?  Everyone else is doing it?  Hmm, I'll leave the ethics of such a matter for some other time and say that if you manage by this or some other method to obtain that quick degree that you're just another person with a ton of them, and that a sudden influx of people with a particular degree in anything doesn't create a need for them which can then translate to jobs for all.  it's the way society works, which is why adults who are supposedly motivational speakers that go to middle and high school classes and start up with the "you can do anything" mantra don't get my respect.  it's not logical.  it's not societal!  You can't do everything because everyone else is wanting to do that too, and at the end of the day it creates needs for the people who are doing whatever it is you want to do.  Lawyers?  Doctors?  Computer consultants?  Governors?  Congressional leaders?  President?  Mafia self made man with a kagillion dollars and a ton of beautiful ladies and private planes and yachts?  Someone has to maintain their cars, take away their trash, mow their lawns, pave their streets, refuel their airplanes, fly their airplanes, unclog their toilets and garbage disposals and take care of any other plumbing and water pipe issues that might result over the span of time that is living anywhere.  Yes, water!  Treating it, dealing with electricity, gas, food production, the list goes on.
If you've managed to overcome all of the above, have a solid career plan in mind with your eye on a degree that isn't worthless, perhaps in business, health care or tech, there's still only so much hope for you.  Do you have solid transportation to and from work?  How much does your future employer have to bend for you?  is there someone who they might deem more qualified by the simple fact that they are sighted?  Discrimination, yes, but it's still happening, and as people simply looking to make the best of their company and bring in the most profit I can't say they don't have the right to do it.  if you know someone who will give you a chance?  Good; you've got something many of us don't.
if you've made it down this far, I'd like to clarify that I'm not here to say it cannot be done, but it is a more or less paradoxical or maddening fight that produces variable results depending on which way you want to look at it and what your personal experiences are like.  These are mine.  if they change, i'll get back to you on it.

My take on this was  and is a little different.

I went to university not so much looking for a qualification with a view to future employment, but simply looking to do more with my life than I had previously. Job applications after all as a blind person, much less an unqualified blind person are something of a none starter anyway, after all the world is currently constructed to convert people into cogs in the prophet machine and if you don't fit that cog space the prophet machine isn't beholden to slow down for you, hence why my personal philosophy has been "sod the prophet machine! I am more than capable of finding a vocation for myself, and if nobody pays me accept the government, well that's society's loss"

With the financial aspect I'll admit university wise I was lucky. Here in Britain post 2012 essentially the government stopped giving a crap about anyone getting qualified and told universities to charge what the hell they liked, this means the chances of paying for a degree involve either massive financial debt who's repayment is predicated upon earning a substantive amount of money, or being rich.
When I qualified however, it was more than possible enough to live and pay for a degree just about, so long as I didn't go nuts, hence why I have a comparatively small lone.
Since the repayment of that large bill is something you only need to worry about in britain when you earn enough, and since your actual chances of earning that amount of money are not high as a blind person I'd still recommend it, even if with a little more reservations, despite the fact that as I said employment, much less employment in anything that actually serves any real function with or without a degree for a blind person is pretty much a none starter anyway.

So what is the advantage of university? One word, Life!

I've heard that students on average tend to be far more accepting and decent people than most of society. Admitedly I'll say my university was and is one of the best available for arts and academic type of subjects in the country, so it's possible that on average people there are less narrow minded, though I have met students from other universities.

No where else  however have I found myself as readily accepted by a group of people, respected, and actively part of a real community where I did participate equally, ---- yes, the cliche was true. I was even president of our philosophy society, and so had a fair degree of responsability for organizing events.

Work wise, I never really had a problem. With philosophy, most of what I needed were recommended books or jernal articles. I was provided a disabled students allowance which I used to pay for a reader, other than this I just worked fairly hard at what I did and came out with an incredibly good degree, and then indeed a masters and now am doing a doctorate.

Of course,  when viewing universities I chose the one with the department I thought the most friendly (which also happened to be pretty high up academically). The department and lecturers (with a couple of exceptions), were on average extremely helpful about things like explaining when writing diagrams or giving book recommendations.
I will say however, remember in general at university it is not school. You are not going to be spoon fed information, but  need to get off your rear and find things out for yourself, read articles, discuss things, do academic research if that's your subject, and work bloody hard.

Is university write for everyone? possibly not, but if your visually impared I'd say it's something you should heavily consider just on social implications alone. University was where I made some of my best friends, where I got to try out different interests from rock climbing to tabletop roleplay, where I actually found all those social cliches about acceptance to prove true for a few short years.

Of course then you leave and that's that, but still better to have some good memories than just start your career as a social outcast waiting for something to turn up streight off. Fortunately for me, something, or someone has, though that was very much luck.
Still, I remember my time at university as an undergrad and postgrad as the best I've had.

Hi,
Now that I’m at university, I can say I feel much more alone. Here people are very hesitant to talk and socialise. It’s true that they are more acceptable, but their hesitation to open towards new people annoys me. If they don’t want to talk to new people, how then they can make new friends? And by acceptance, I mean acceptance towards people of other religions, colours, and regions. For example, there is a tendency of people here to judge others who come from run-down villages. Hopefully my classmates don’t do this, cause most of the students come from different regions. The problems here are like, disorganised, unsociable, lonely, quiet people, less humorous, less talkative, less furious, and after all, less curious to look for and learn new things.
In my highschool I had some friends who were very nice people, full of joy and very helpful. They were very sociable and ready to cooperate and work together. Something very interesting I found there, most of my classmates would willingly offer their help when I was alone or needed to go anywhere. My teachers were not much different. They would ask me if I needed anything explained or needed any kind of help, or if I needed to have anything cleared in relation to the lessons. It was really a nice environment all around. I felt like home.
In the university, this cannot happen because there is a bigger number of students and the professors cannot get to know with students. They may hardly know your name. One teacher here who had previously worked in a high school told me that when she was at that place, she needed to deal with many issues, like investigating the state of students, and even dealing with any of their family problems. But here she didn’t have to. And this is a big difference cause you don’t have an idea who is lecturing you, who is commanding the department, who is telling you to be adults and so on.

Eh, my first two years were ... hmm, let's just go with "bad, but Japanese class was kinda cool". Then suddenly in the third year a wave of new students who I could actually handle showed up.
(Then when I tried going back after my break, they were all gone and it was a lot like the first year again, except with horrible sleep problems and Windows Live Messenger replaced with Skype the Bloated. ... Skype the Hut? Hmm.)

I want to write and code and compose full time! And if directing my actions wasn't more frustrating than Super Pacman 2, I would have been doing that for the past 10 years, at least!

But, employment opportunities?
well, there are always call-centers and the government. If you're really diligent and can afford it, there's law. And if you're really studious, there's computers. But enough about stereotypes! Of course you're here to learn about jobs that are actually worth the paycheck, and not just looking for a grindstone (oh! That's why they call it grinding!).
... In which case, don't listen to us. So long as you're playing Minecraft or at least Super Metroid, instead of Super Pacman 2, the only real question is how willing you are to relocate in search of the best opportunities. And, of course, how much effort and what skills you have etc but those are just kinda assumed.

well maybe with the release of the orbit reader 20 and therefore very low cost refreshable braille, maybe just maybe our ability to get through college and gain fulltime employment will greatly increase?

@Dark,
I think you have been more than lucky to find a good community at your university. I'd give everything to have a community like that you describe.
In fact, there are some departments who are very organised in terms of schedules, appointments, and activities. A good example is the department of Psychology in  the university of my city. Very punctual professors, very organised, sociable students who set up new activities, take part in conferences, and create new non-profitable organisations to help people in need.

For instance, since the pollution is a problem in my city, the students of the first grade in the department of psychology organised an activity to raise the population's awareness by cleaning the most problematic areas in the city. They also create and organise small groups in excursions out-of-school so that any individual interested can take part and spend not much, while enjoying a lot a wonderful day with new, friendly people.

so you saw an orbit reader 20 at a convention or conference? what was it like? oh and by the way you can read programming on it because i read the orbit reader20 manual and you can change settings to fit as much onto the display as can possibly fit and scroll by character with left and right arrows so yes you could read math or programming stuff on it. so how is the quality of the braille? is it like thermoform braille?

well, sueing the college would require a lawyer and money that I don't have. as for braille being obsolete? I hope that never happens. after all we have all this technology and stuff and still we have books in print on regular old paper. and if braille becomes obsolete how will people learn spelling and math and foreign languages and formatting and punctuation, and grammar? How will they know the difference between the words there their and they're? Braille is just as important as print is to sighted people. I really hope the orbit 20 greatly increases braille literacy.

In answer to your question about the Orbit, I would assume that they are in that halfway position when the unit is turned off, but I do not know as I have never seen one. That halfway position is actually the best for the dots because of their fragility.

About the college situation, that's exactly my point--things will never change because the people who were short-change by the colleges can't pay the legal fees. However, you should still tell the NFB or another group like that. They may be able to assist you. I do agree with you that braille is important, and I see it as a shame that less blind people are learning and using it today.

@Afrim, even within my university some groups were better than others. My department was generally good, albeit their was one extremely bitchy and highly unpleasant ultra feminist lecturer who hated anyone with a y chromosome. In British university a lot of groups exist as "socs" or societies. Some like the philosophy society (philsoc), are subject related, but many aren't.
I was also a member of my colidge choire, who were extremely nice, tried out rock climbing which was fun but not something I really connected with, and later tried out ballroom dancing which was pretty dire because people were rather standoffish.

Most famously the light opera society were bastards, refusing to take me on auditions and make blatant excuses, the start of unfortunately a process I now know all too well. So, it wasn't all good, but there was enough of a good community in there for me to have an amazing time, just a shame as I said that it had to rather abruptly end.

Hmmm, this orbit thing sounds interesting indeed, I've fancied the idea of an actually affordable braille display, if nothing else to play roguelikes with .

Well the braille debate is another issue, though I will note that putting all your faith in technology to solve what is essentially a social and atitudenal problem is probably not a good idea, since all the accessibility in the world cannot fundamentally change the attitude's of an employer, community or group of people. There are after all many sighted people who firmly believe that unless someone is staring fixedly at some lines on paper or on a screen they cannot be reading at all and won't accept any substitute, or won't accept any alternative mode of travel to driving around in a nice little car, ---- my brother lost a job for this very reason, that his potential employers believed! he was unable to travel there without a car without actually asking him.

Turtlepower unfortunately is correct here. Anti discrimination laws simply mean the discrimination cannot be obvious, and often even preclude useful discussion, particularly because as a lot of sighted people believe disabled people are inherently  incompetent, this includes disabled people's own assessment of their own competence, eg, "the silly blind person thinks they can do x but I know they can't so I'll find an excuse"

When pushed for example the university light opera society once actually did say to me "we just can't! have a blind person on stage!" The bastards.

This is why my personal belief is that the system will only change when forceably changed, ie, there needs to be a third party not connected to either the disabled person or the none disabled person making an assessment of them, a third party with the power to essentially arbitrate discussions and force discussion of disability related matters since currently the power relations just don't add up.

I've even in some rather grimmer moments thought that every disabled person should be allotted five governmentally sanctioned murders throughout their life. Just five, no more, that way everyone would have! to be a bit nicer to disabled people, particularly since the majority wouldn't know how many murders any given disabled person had left o whether they'd be willing to use them, heck it'd make the power relation far less agent/patient and a bit farer .

People go to college so obviously they can try and land a nice job. Not many people want to pay someone good money for a job that they are not good at/have no experience in/have no knowledge in. In my opinion, the degree is quite important. So remember, if you want good money you should probably get an education first. As for myself, my college degree has been absolutely worth it.
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College isn't just about the education -- I would argue it's hardly about the exams so much is it about networking and utilizing resources the university has to offer in order to get you involved in companies and/or organizations related to your field of interest.  It is such a common misconception that college is solely about studying, being assessed, passing said assessments, and graduating with a degree.  Often times I hear stories of people who had friends or knew of family members who went to college, received a degree with a 3.7 GPA, and are in a ludicrous amount of debt with no line of work in their foreseeable future.  I make it a point to ask if during their time at the university did they work with their career services department.  The answers are either I don't know or no.  This gives the prospect of college a bad name.  Students are advised regularly to take advantage of university-offered services more often than not.  You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot force him to drink it.  The inability of students' showing initiative costs them making contacts, getting first-hand experience, and ultimately, the probability they will get a job in what they enjoy doing.  To put it blankly, college isn't what most people think it is.  Furthermore, it is believed that if students don't get a job relative to their major, it is the prospect of college's fault, not the student's.

Please don't misunderstand -- grades still hold significant revelance in college.  They are, however, about as important as schools let them be important.  Scholarship awards are contingent upon students' performance in class as well as involvement in extra curricular activities.  In other words, good grades get you through school by earning you money to help pay for your tuition, and of course making you more likely to get into other schools.  Outside of the academic arena, however, only rarely do employers (in America) request a copy of your transcript.  They are more concerned with what degree you earned rather than what your grade was in Contemporary Ethics.  In sum, grades are important predominantly inside the academic arena.

I've been working with a professor and some other advisors on getting an internship related to computer science.  Thus far, I've applied to an intership for field placement, and have an inside connection with a local medical center in need of dev-ops.  If I hadn't bothered to meet with my professor or the other advisors at the university, I wouldn't have found these opportunities.

To wrap this up, college is a time to study what you want, but also to network and forge relationships with those who are in the field who will hopefully, in turn, provide you with ways to get on the inside as well.  Pick the right school, ensure disability services meet expectation, do well in your classes, apply for boatloads of scholarships, and don't be afraid to bang on some different departments' doors to have your questions asked.

HTH
Luke