What is your opinion about accumulating debt during college?

Is it worth it? Will one be a slave to debt? Will one have more opportunity? Might one be able to take his or her own education as far as they want if they engage in taking on loans where otherwise they would never have an opportunity? Should poor college students overlook loan options and instead apply only for scholarships?

Is it realistic to apply out of the States nowadays seeing as there are less jobs even available for non college grads since a lot of factories are being shipped over seas.