...A person attending college may not entirely know what they want to do with the degree they are working towards. A student could have a science degree from a college and end up entering fields like chemistry, teaching or something entirely different. There is a lot more leeway when going to college. If you take truck driving classes at a trade school, you will be qualified to drive a truck, but if you want to be an electrician, you have to go back and take classes that will teach you to become an electrician. Before applying to trade school, students have to know exactly what they want to do. Students can go to college and not know what they want to be when they graduate, and that's okay. There are plenty of classes that students can take in...
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...College is a Waste of Time and Money The essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money” by Bird is an excerpt from the book The Case against College which was published in 1975. The author tells people that college is not an obligation in our life. Bird agues that college is a waste of time because the majority of college students go to college for social and economic reasons. Very few actually go to learn and have the desire to be there. And he think students were not happy at all. They felt like it was time in a jail cell. It is just a stage which is taken by a lot of teenagers who don’t even know what to do with their lives. This excerpt is clearly directed towards raising awareness among the high school graduates concerning college education, as well as the general public. I find it quite puzzling that the author of the excerpt has purposed to demonize higher education and yet she has a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from two separate universities, which points out to the importance of higher education. However, this is not true. College is a fundamental stage during someone’s life, in which we are taught the basic skills related to the field which we are interested in. Furthermore, we learn to be independent and to make new friends, who will be able to help us in the future. Bird argues that higher education is a complete waste of time since the majority of the students attend college because of economic and social reasons. She further states that only a handful...
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...Why College is still worth it Becoming a millionaire isn’t impossible, and the possibility of having anything you’ve ever wanted is very appealing. Just about everyone wants to be successful and have a lot of money, but there’s a problem, it’s not easy. However, one way to start heading that way is to get an education. For years people have wondered whether or not a college education is worth it. As of now, the experience and knowledge gained through college is a worthwhile investment, and can lead to success in many situations. The price of college increases on average about 8% every year, yet for 2012 the price rose an astounding 15%. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 18.2 million students enrolled in college in 2007, and In fall 2012, a record 21.6 million students were enrolled in college. That’s an increase of over 15% over 5 years while the price of attendance has been continuously increasing, are all these kids wasting their money? All these people attend college every year, yet if it isn’t worth it, why don’t they feel that way? In the article “Is college still worth it? You bet.”, Tom Dennis discusses the importance of attending college. One survey asked students how they felt about their college experience and while 37% said they would have been more careful choosing a major, “only 3% said they would avoid college entirely”. Dennis says that college is a necessity in this day and age, and it would be very unwise to skip out on...
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...Phillips 1/19/15 English 101 Should everyone go to college? 1. This text originally appeared from a professor named Mike Rose, whose latest book, “Back to school : Why does everyone deserve a Second Chance.” 2. The genre of this text is informal and persuasive because Mike Rose rhetorical purpose is to explain that its positives and negatives to going to college. He expresses that going to college will make you more money than just an average person with a high school diploma. He also tells the audience that the more degrees you have the better. You will most likely make more money if you have multiple degrees. 3. The concept that the author is trying to get everyone to understand is college isn’t for everyone. If you know exactly what you’re going to do going into college that’s great. Most students don’t know what they will do after school so they go to college to explore different options. Students also waste money on school because they major in things they will never use in the real world this is why college isn’t for everyone. Some students are locked in certain careers that will lead them to a job after college. Other students aren’t which is ok, but they don’t need to waste money on school if they aren’t going to further their education on what they will do after school is over. 4. The author is trying to tell that college isn’t for everyone. You need to have an intended purpose to go to college or you can have the risk of wasting money and going...
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...CHAPTER 1. THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Information Technology (IT) aims to make the students gain knowledge to contribute to the progress of computing. It also aims to solve or minimize problems of every people in our society. This course helps the students to maintain, operate and develop applications, software, networking and database that are useful in many forms. Information Technology contributes much in our world today as our technology grows bigger every single day. Information technology benefits the world by allowing organizations to work more efficiently and to maximize productivity. Faster communication, electronic storage and the protection of records are advantages that IT can have. Information technology has to do with computer applications, on which nearly every work environment is dependent. Since computerized systems are so widely used. Information Technology is now one of the in demands. It is one of the populated courses in every school. This course is not an easy one. Students have to deal with a lot of logical subjects, programming, troubleshooting, multimedia, math subjects, and a lot more that is related in technology. Not all IT students succeed in this course, that is why the population of the IT students in San Pedro College of Business Administration starting on the school year of 2013-2014 decreases based on the information obtained by the researchers. The researchers chose this topic because they observed that from the past years...
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...Persuasive Student Loan Essay “Private student loans should be avoided at all cost,” says Suze Orman. If student loans of a type of good debt, then why does Suze Orman, a successful author and financial advisor, say to avoid them? You would think she would know what she’s talking about. Wouldn’t you? It just so happens that she is right about student loans. They should be avoided for two main reasons. Student loans cost way more than they’re worth causing them to be unnecessary, and Student loans lead into massive debt. Student Loans are unnecessary. Why would you borrow $100,000 to go to a private college and get a law degree when you could work and pay off $24,000 to go to a cheaper, in- state public college and get the same degree? It is possible to finish...
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...and clocks in to make a better future for himself, and he has enough to barely get by on a day to day basis. This is just inhumane and coldhearted. It is easy for us to look down on China for doing this to their people, however; we treat our student athletes in the same manner. These student athletes struggle daily with the same problem. Juggling at least twelve hours of credits, with at least ten hours of practice a week, not including games. How can a student athlete possibly have time for a job? These students barely have enough time to study. Practice is often times long and hard, and once that is over with it is time to study or do homework. Sleep? As a student athlete there is no such thing as sleep. Sleep is just one of the thousands of things college athletes have to worry about. Also, earning extra money can be an almost impossible feat with the lack of extra time in a week. In a paraphrase of a famous rapper named Jay Z, “College athletes have 99 problems, and money is one.” When it comes to college, people have to go through many trials and tribulations to get there. Getting to college can be a tremendous feat that people may shed blood, sweat, and tears just to arrive at that level in their life. There are over 460,000 student athletes in the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). Not close to the 482 million people in China sweatshops, but the outcome remains the same within the...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. C Team BCOM/275 Robert May Should College Athletes be Paid to Play. Should college athletes be paid to play? That is the question and discussion being presented not only in this paper but also across many colleges in these United States. There are many pros and cons to college athletes being paid to play their sport, which makes this is a very controversial topic. Are the sport scholarships and uniforms enough? Should schools really pocket all that money they make in revenue from the sports teams? Many moral, ethical and legal issues can be raised in the idea of paying college athletes to play, on both the pro and con side of the issue. Should an athlete receive a full ride scholarship and also be paid from the school to play? Many big universities may be able to handle such a thing, but what about the small colleges that do not receive such a large amount of revenue from their sports teams? Can or should schools pay all the athletes or only the top players? What about Title IX, how will potentially paying athletes be affected by it? All these topics will be discussed, as well as Team C’s final decision on this matter. PROS In 2012 the athletic revenue reported by University of Texas was $163.2 million, Alabama $143.4 million, Ohio State $142.0 million and Michigan $140.1 million (Berkowitz, Schnaars, & Upton, 2014) Coaches like Nick Saban (Alabama Football) and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men’s Basketball) make in excess of $7 Million...
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...Standardized Testing Standardized testing should not be required for admission to college because it doesn't really tell you anything. Why make someone take the ACT, SAT, or any IQ test just to see if their smart enough for college, or to even get in that specific college. Some people don't do well with test taking so they get a bad score. All that really shows if your good at test taking or not. This is why standardized test should be abolished from college admissions. A standardized test is called such because everyone takes the same test with the same questions, so ones performance can be compared to everyones else, in order for a relative score to be obtained (Lurie, Karen. "Standardized Testing.”). The first SAT was published in 1926 and administered 8,040 people. Standardized tests serve to offer measure of aptitude. There are standardized test that can measure school progress, intelligence, memory, and behavior capabilities. Some standardized tests are given to a whole group of people at once, others are given individually. There are also...
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...9/30 Going to a four year college can give you many amazing future opportunities but will rob you of both time and money. To start, though many ,including President Obama himself disagree, the article, “Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to Be) for Everyone” by Robert Reich and interview, “Why Kids Shouldn’t Go to College” stress the effects student loan debt can be on students and how there should be an alternative for post high school education. To begin, the interview, “Why Kids Shouldn’t Go to College” by James Altucher explains how debt is affecting the nation. To start, the country has never been in so much debt, “we passed as a country 1.1 trillion in student debt.” This quote is significant because it displays how debt is not only affecting...
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...College Athletes Equals No Pay College athletes have never been paid to play sports on the college level in the history of college athletics, and the NCAA has still grown to be one of the greatest associations in the world. There are a certain amount of athletes that gain athletic scholarships in high school, and also some that gain them once they go off to college and start playing sports. Just like college athletes, there are a lot of college students that go off to college off academic scholarships. All of these students have the same goal, to get an education and to make more money after they are out of school. So why should a college athlete be offered money while they are going to school for doing something they chose to do, and a student with an academic scholarship is not? These two type of students are taking the same classes, getting the same degree for the same type of job after college, but there are thoughts that college athletes should be paid while they are going to school just because they are playing sports. Yes, a college athlete has to manage their time a little more because of their sports schedule and their school schedule, but there are also a lot of extra help on colleges campus for college athletes then students that does not play sports to make sure they’re grades stay where they need to be. Getting a scholarship to go to school is an award, being a college athlete is an award also, so why is it such a need to award these students even more than they...
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...Mario Talavera English 1A Often times we see articles on the internet about college education and how important it is to get one, what are the majors that are most likely to give you the higher paycheck, degrees with the higher and lower unemployment rate, we see degrees that will give you a better chance to pay back all of the loans at the end of graduation, but also the ones the are on the opposite side of the spectrum. Reading all these reports online can either help you or make it even more difficult to decide for the type of degree you want to go for, some students prefer to go for careers that will give them the most money over following their real passion, only because they feel they have better chances of having more success and financial stability, but there’s one thing that a lot of people can agree on, that getting a college education can increase your chances at success and you’re more likely to achieve excellence and grow at any type of job. But what is success or how do we define it ? Sucesss can have various different meanings according to people, to some it may mean going to the college of their dreams and eventually getting that “perfect” job that they’ve always wanted, driving a fancy car and being able to go on vacation every year, and not having to worry about paying bills because you make enough money to cover those expenses. While for other people, success just means maybe getting married and having your own house, waking up every morning...
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... What is College for? What is College for? There are many answers to this question. I feel college is for people that want to succeed in life. You can be in any wage bracket, depending on what you’re majoring in. For example, you can go to school to be a doctor or a registered nurse. We all know doctors make more than a RN, so a doctor is in a higher wage bracket than a RN. As a student, you have the choice to be whatever you want to be. You might be in a major you like and end up changing majors because you found a major you like better. The first school I enrolled in was Central Carolina Tech in 1995. My major was Machine Tool Technology. My job paid 80% of my tuition, as long as it dealt with the job. I applied for a job in the Tool Room, but they didn’t want to hire me. I looked at getting employment elsewhere, but needed at least 2 years experience. So, after receiving my Associates Degree in Machine Tool Technology, I enrolled a second time in an Industrial Maintenance program. After getting my Associates Degree in Industrial Maintenance, I applied for a Maintenance helper position which I received soon after. I held the position for a year and tried to get a regular Maintenance position, but they did not want to hire me. I then signed up for a Die Bench Tech position, which I held for a year. I then decided to enlist into the US Army as a Machinist to gain experience within the civilian world. After serving 5 years in the Army, I decided to go overseas to work...
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...When Johnny Manziel appeared recently on the cover of Time magazine -- striking his Heisman pose with six simple words, "It's Time To Pay College Athletes" sharing his space -- the most universally agreed, yet universally debated, issue in all of non-professional sports returned to the front of the national discussion. Yet the beauty of the debate is once again lost because the foundation of the argument sits on a fault line. There is no system of payment that can be put in place that is fair across the board to all students, all sports and all schools that participate in college athletics. At this point, the debate over whether college athletes should be paid really doesn't change anything. It's not about finding the right answer because there is no right answer. Seemingly everyone, regardless of the stance they take, makes valid points. Yes, for the most part, colleges and universities are making money off of the backs, performances and success of major football and men's basketball programs and the scholarship athletes who play them. But ask yourself: Isn't that what most businesses do? Yes, business. Not college athletics. Business, man. The problem seems to be that we don't look at college athletics as a business. Instead, we subconsciously and constantly (and emotionally) look at college sports as something different. We allow the "school" part to blind us into thinking that the educational piece changes the dynamics of what is really going on and exempts athletics...
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...Two Sided Essay: Should College Athletes be Paid or not If the great Kansas basketball coach, Bill Self, can completely change his whole prospective on the idea of college athletes being paid, we all can! Self once stated that “[college athletics has] always [been] big business; now it's huge business. And when you're sending players from the West Coast to East Coast to play sports, to miss more classes, and the schools benefit from that financially, why shouldn't the people that are responsible for the business, and that would be the student athletes," (Kansas). At most colleges, college athletes are a key source of income, and they attract students to their institutions. Universities depend on their athletes to produce and maintain the popularity of their school's name. College athletes are supposed to be the best of the best on that level, so why do college athletes not get paid? The National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, says that it is trying to protect the athletes from "exploitation by professional and commercial enterprises" (United). Many argue that student athletes should not be paid because they are receiving an essentially free education through a scholarship. These people feel that the promise of their education being paid for is enough for the college athletes. They reason that with free tuition, room, board, books, and fees, there are no other factorable costs that could significantly harm ones packets. However, on the opposite side of the issue, some...
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