You may be resting in your dorm room, listening to your Beatles and smoking your "bong" pipe and composing your protest march folk song without a care in the world, secure in the knowledge that college degrees are kind of worth the money, more or less. But are they? Well, maybe not for you, hippie.

James Franco may be off Twitter, but that's not going to keep other users from painstakingly documenting his every move. A user snapped this picture of Franco graduating from NYU's film school today. Apparently, his cock-and-piss-filled thesis film didn't turn off too many of his teachers.

The New York Times reports today on colleges that are trying to make themselves less worthless when it comes to returns on the investment of one's higher education. How're they doing?