Higher education is a body that intends to be greater than the sum of its parts. The guiding principle is that college is a primary route to becoming an enlightened person capable of thriving in a society of opportunities and challenges. Over time, colleges have gone from providing only academic content to facilitating more opportunities for learning through personal engagement, systems to apply knowledge and realizing love of self. As with anything constructive, there are unintended consequences with negative impacts that we can't always anticipate. Is it possible that having a college degree is looting the human consciousness of its need and ability to unpack the path humans take to discover love and their life's passion … and realize the need for lifelong learning? Has higher education told us that only those who do the work to finish the degree get to breathe freely? The author's far from monolithic relationship with higher education has recently made her start asking different questions amid different contexts. In particular, "Higher education, what have you done for me lately? What is a college degree doing for any of us?"