...(Desilver). In addition, business has been the most common major since 1980. Going to college will set one up for success in life because one will gain experience of living independently and pursuing a passion; however, many people think going to college is a waste of time and money, but statistics show that people who do not attend college are two times more likely to be unemployed. Being successful in life does not just happen. College is something that will help one become successful in life. Going to college will be a life changing experience for anyone. One will get the experience of living independently....
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...When you go off to college, you leave behind some important people in your life. I moved four hours away from my hometown and left my family and my friends behind. Sure, there were some tears shed, and I always said I’d come home to visit and make time for everyone, but turns out, not everyone wanted to make time for me. She and I became friends when we were sixteen. We hit it off immediately when she started working at the same grocery store as me. She had a car, so we’d always go out to dinner or drive around town looking for an adventure. We went to concerts together all the time. We’d drive hours to meet our favorite celebrities and watch them perform. We took each other to get tattoos and piercings. We did everything together. Then I left for college. Even if you don’t realize it, you’re so much busier in college. You can’t just drop everything and go to a concert or go to the movies, or go get a new tattoo. You’ve either got studying to do or you’re just too poor because you can’t work as much. If you have friends who aren’t in college, they don’t understand as much. Yeah, they’re probably busy working and doing their own thing, but they can’t truly understand because they’re not in your shoes. I tried my best to keep in touch with my friend for a while. Sure, there were times we’d go for a while without talking. At one point,...
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...Cooney E4/6th 29 March 2016 Attending College Some may say college is not for them, and others believe it is. College is indeed time consuming and technical, but it is also the start of the life of some people's dreams. A person could give endless reasons as to why they do not want to attend college, such as: it is too expensive, it is time consuming, or there are not always jobs in the field they got their major in. Others will argue that. A person should attend college because it gives better jobs, more opportunities, and easier connections in the work field when looking for a job. People with only a high school diploma do not make as much money as a person with something as simple as an associate's degree. “People with a college degree make around $1,100 a week. Someone with a high school diploma makes just $638” (GreatSchools Staff). An associate's degree is only two years of college. Some people only go for two years because that is all they need for the profession they want to proceed in. Although a person that attends college for more than two years obviously has a higher degree. The higher the degree you have, the more money you make. Some parents do not want to support their children beyond high school. “A lot of high school graduates have never worked, paid a bill, or learned anything about personal finance” (Slide, Casey). College will most definitely teach a person how to finance wisely. Not only does college help a person earn more money, it helps a person...
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...College Tuition: Fighting the cost of college tuition Imagine having your dream job with good pay and everything you have ever wanted. However you end up with thousands of dollars in debt due to college tuition being so expensive. With the price of college tuition being expensive, more jobs are having higher standards in who they are hiring. Which results in more kids going/wanting to go to college. With colleges knowing this, they start to raise their tuition rate. College tuition has become too expensive for the middle-class family to afford. The cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise. Most schools are continuing to increase the cost of tuition while spending money on things that are not going towards the students. Such as...
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...thought of going to college renders through lots of peoples minds, but did you ever stop and think about the price or whether it’s worth it or not? Paying thousands of dollars to not have a job graduating out of college is a struggle most college graduates are going through. People spend four to five years in college busting their butt trying to make something out of your life. Even though there is a lot of hardship with the outlook on college, but I feel that college is not worth the gamble. There are lots of key reasons why college is not worth going to. Mostly because of taking out student loans, potentially not having a job after graduation. When going to college you tend to become very depressed and overwhelmed. The student loan borrowing...
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...Summary Are Too Many People Going to College? A question Charles Murray asked and wrote an article about. Charles Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. Charles Murray is an author of multiple books and has had parts of those books written in The American, the journal of the American Enterprise Institute. Why does Charles Murray argue that too many people are going to college? His argument is based off of three main supports: Hirsch’s three points, college is becoming obsolete, and what college is really used for. Let’s start with what he said about Hirsch’s three points. Hirsch’s three points are full participation in a culture requires familiarity with a body of core knowledge, core knowledge is an important part of the glue that holds the culture together, and K-8 are the right years to teach core knowledge and the effort should...
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...students graduate from high school every year there’s usually one thing on their mind, college. For some students they will take the journey to college that no one else in their family has taken before, and for others they will continue the family tradition of going through one of the most important moments in their lives. During someone’s time in any fine institution they will find themselves procrastinating, cramming, getting emotional, and even partying. With all that in mind we all have to realize that college is the first stepping stone that many people make in their lives and it greatly influences how their future will turn out. Many students have been through the typical parent’s lecture about studying hard and never waiting till the last second to do their work, but in reality more and more students starting their first year of college will procrastinate to a certain extent. Although the term procrastination is nothing new to any high school graduate, it can be much more dangerous going into college. Because of the new way of life college brings many students, many do not realize all of the distractions college brings. All of the partying, work schedules, college clubs, and social interactions really take their toll on new students and some do not realize how much is too much. With this in mind it is recommended that new students start off slowly and make time schedules to see how much time they have to balance everything out. That way they do not overload their schedules...
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...STRESS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS It wasn’t but just a few years ago I myself was someone that was looking forward to going to college. All that I had ever heard were the good things that college provided and how fun it can be. It was only a few weeks after I had started that I began to see how stressful college was going to be. Through my personal experience, observation and conversing with others I then realized how big of a factor that “stress” is in college. Stress is something that can literally beat you up physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically. When people start to think about college, lots of the time stress is something that is overlooked. A lot of people soon find out that stress will overwhelm you if not dealt with properly. It’s not surprising that college is a huge jump and a big life change. I have found that some of the hardest things to deal with in college are friendships, independent living, life situations and self-doubt. These are only a few of the stressors that people run into, but these seem to be some of the major stressors. Not to mention that all these stressors can lead to illness and disease. All of the mental and physical problems that stress can cause are unbelievable. For example, 16% of 20-24 year olds are hypertensive which relates to apoplexy that can be caused by stress. “Cardiovascular disorders, of which apoplexy is one, kill more Americans each year than any other disease” (Bakris 2007). This shows that stress does not discriminate...
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...Misassumptions about College Education There are a lot of misassumptions about college education. People think it isn’t necessary to go to college while others think it is necessary to go to college. Some people prefer to go to a four year school while others prefer to go to a two year community college. Four main misassumptions about college are: one, people can no longer afford to get a liberal arts degree, two, college graduates are finding it hard to get a good job with a liberal arts degree, three, people assume that their child’s health insurance is covered by the school, four, people think it’s pointless to go to get a college education because they think that they won’t find a job with a degree, and the last misassumption about college is, if their child gets sick, they will refund their tuition and other fees. First Misassumption The first misassumption is that people can longer afford getting a two year degree. People think it costs too much money to go to a community college. A community college is just a two year school that helps students get a good start at college. People think that even a community college costs too much to attend. With all the tuition fees, community colleges are still a lot cheaper than attending a four year college. Some stats are that tuition expenses can vary greatly, depending on the type of two-year institution you hope to attend. In 2009, the average tuition at a public two-year college was $2,156. Average tuition at a private not-for-profit...
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...article about social media portrays it in much more of a negative light than I feel like it should be. Maybe since I’m a teenager and grew up using social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, I’m a little bias but I feel like they help us more than hurt us. A person can learn a lot from the internet; it is very important that you are able to use the internet as a “source” in everyday life. I will admit that some people do in fact use the internet too much and rely on it more than they should, but others know how to control their “addiction” to it. I can relate when Steve Pinker talks about training yourself to be able to do one task. You must learn more information about what you want to know. I don’t think some people understand that, I think they feel as though if they are good at solving puzzles and reading, they are going to be good at all reading material and puzzles, which is not the case. I’m a person that loves reading but if the material is boring or unrelated to my life I don’t enjoy it. But I don’t feel like if you use Twitter too much your life is going to turn into a “Twitter account”. People need to know when it is becoming too much, and learn how to live in the moment and not focus so much on how everyone else is going to see them. We should do the things we want to do not live like “How many likes can I get on Facebook” or “I wonder if someone will retweet this”. That’s when the use of social media becomes too much. I was surprised about some of the facts...
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...in three jobs require higher education” (2012 speech). College may be the stepping stone to real life but there are too many challenges against the students. If we want them to succeed why is the system so complicated and expensive? Many college students end up in financial trouble due to being unprepared. Students often don’t have the right study skills going into college and that can hurt them. Some student is often not emotionally ready for college and struggle with the transition. Whether we are ready or not college is what we must invest in so we can peruse our education. College isn’t easy and students face many challenges like financial trouble, lack of preparedness, and emotionally. One challenge student’s face is that many new of them aren’t prepared financially and struggle through their college life. According to the Learn Liberty video the cost of tuition is rising faster than inflation. “There is plenty wrong with American higher education, including the runaway costs” (Sanford Ungar. 231). There are so many other costs in college that students may think they can afford it but it ends up being too much. For instance some students don’t live at home by choice or they don’t have that option and they have to add rent and food into their financial struggle. Nowadays “graduating college with six figures’ worth of debt is becoming increasingly common” (Andrew Hacker. 179). One reason I chose to go to community college is due to the cost of higher education at a university...
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...Toni Braxton, much like myself, had been told her life would never be the same dueto a new diagnosis of lupus. Toni Braxton was told she would never be able to achieve the goals she once had. Toni had big dreams of finishing up her latest album as well as furthering her career. Toni and I are very much alike in this way; however, my goals and dreams consisted of going back to school to get a degree in criminal justice. Toni Braxton and I both vowed not to let lupus get us! Many a doctor told me to file for disability and just give in. My motivation and drive to succeed against all of the odds placed against me was too great for me to quit. One would think after a couple heart attacks, blood clots to the lungs, and the death of my daughter due to lupus would have made me listen - nope. Obviously giving up was not an option in my mind, and going back to college was something I really wanted in life. I knew in my heart that it is never too late to go back to college. In all of my years suffering from lupus, the motivation and drive to succeed in college and better my life for my family was always the winning factor. The desperation that came with wanting to tell my son my success story of going back to college at 34 years old was driven by just that, desperation. This was not a bad desperation, but yet a good desperation; desperation to be a college graduate and achieve my dreams. I truly believed a few times over the last 13 years that going back to college with lupus was...
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...depressing moments, angry moments and stressful ones too. After getting out of a six year relationship with a man I was deeply in love with and thought I was going to marry, I decided to put both feet on the ground and finally dedicate my time to myself rather than pursuing a relationship that everyone knew was never going to work out. I even knew it, but rather was in total denial. I decided that I had spent too many years in community college and trying to make everyone else around me happy, except myself. I took initiative in trying to look for a university to transfer to. I decided that I was going to take my professional life more seriously, finish my education, and satisfy my needs before everyone else’s. Never did I think that the last two years of my life were going to be the most painful and difficult of my whole short life. I was living in my own little world, where I was very comfortable with my surroundings until fate introduced me to reality. I went to community college right out of high school. I spent 5 years out of my life from community college to community college. I went to Orange Coast College, Santa Ana College, and Santiago Community College. Because I was in a relationship, my priority wasn’t college. I was really young and in love. My whole life revolved around his and his schedule without realizing I was only hurting myself, my academics and my future. I would drop classes, not pass them or would just stop going. The move to Riverside didn’t help either. I...
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...Two-year and four-year colleges each have their own benefits and downfalls. They both offer a college education. Going to a two-year college instead of a four-year college, students will have smaller class sizes. At a two-year college, there are classes around 20 students, at a four-year college someone can have class sizes up to 40 to 50 students, and even more in lecture halls. Having fewer students at a two-year college makes it easier to talk to a professor and ask for help. At a four-year college, it is much harder to talk to a professor and some institutions have a student teacher that students must talk to. They can’t even meet with the professor. Going to a two-year college instead of a four-year will save a lot of money. On the other hand going to a four-year college over a two-year college will offer more degree options to choose from. At a two-year college, students earn an...
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...different people. The largest group effected by technology is college students. There are many good things about technology in this period of time. One of the main things that really have a good effect on college students is a computer. There are many things that college students use computers for. One of the real reasons that almost every college student has a computer in their dorm or in their house is to type up all of those papers that are assigned to them by their professors. Another one of the biggest things in technology is the Internet. You would swear that now someone would die if they didn’t have the Internet. People use the Internet almost everyday to either check e-mail, search something from the Internet, or they can even use it for AOL instant messenger. E-mail is one of the new things in technology that almost everyone is using now instead of the mail service. This is a really good thing for college students because this is a cheap way of keeping in touch with everyone you know without having to spend a fortune on phone calls. College students can also e-mail their professors about something that is going wrong, why they won’t be in class, or they can also e-mail their professors their essays or papers. Researching on the Internet is a very famous thing too. College students can use this to look up information on a topic that they have to write a paper on or just look up anything in general. AOL instant messenger is a very big thing with teens and college students...
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