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Persuasive Essay On Benefits Of Attending College

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Do you want to work for minimum wage for your whole life? You do not want to be the one that is struggling to make ends meet your entire life. Going to college for many people means that you are going to incur debt that you will never be able to pay off, and you will only make a little more than someone that didn't attend college. I have found this to be false. There are many reasons to attend college rather than going straight into the work force after high school. Although college debt can seem overwhelming at first, the benefits of attending college outweigh the cost because of all the opportunities gained from the degree, the money that you will make after you acquire your degree, the skills that you will acquire from attending, and there are always opportunities to reduce …show more content…

In many fields you will get to use many technologies not available to everyone like many engineering fields that require a lot of college. Just think about it, with a few years of college you could be helping build things such as a NASA spaceship or it could be something more low-scale that is going to help everyone like solar generators or even hydro-dams. You can do almost anything you want if you get that college degree to show that you are determined to meet your goals and succeed in your life.

There are some other opportunities that you get opened up to when you go to college like the opportunity to meet new people. Meeting new people is a very important part of college that many people underestimate. Meeting new people helps you cope with the big change of atmosphere from high school to college, especially if you live in a smaller town. These new people that you meet can also teach you things that you normally wouldn't have learned back at home like how to entertain yourself while your not attending

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