When Students Should Declare Their Major

When you focus on a career major, you have to have a reasonable picture of what you are getting into. You have to get correct data and assess it. Numerous components go into picking a school or college major including parental or peer influence,

Can you imagine yourself as an adult who just graduated from college, and has to move back home and live with your parents? Imagine waking up everyday and knowing that you have two hundred thousand dollars in student loans that has to be paid? There are many reasons that cause these problems, but today, large amounts of student debt and an increase in unemployment are the major problems that college graduates are facing. With the lack of jobs and no money, people are turning to their parents for food and shelter. In Rosie Evan’s essay “Boomerang Kids: What are the Cause of Generation Y’s Growing Pains,” she explains the causes of the delayed adulthood, and she also gives the messages to people and the government to offer better support to this generation. The causes of Generation Y’ growing pains are the amount of college’s debt, lack of employment and people becoming too dependent on technology.

This inability for people without a college degree to get ahead means they will have to work more just to stay even as shown in “Why Millennials are Behind”, spending less time with their families or doing other things they like.

The mounting student debt of college graduates is holding many back from achieving their life goals. People are constantly told that they can do anything they want. This is not true for a multitude of reasons. Whatever one’s idea of the American Dream is it is not always as achievable as it is said to be. An example from an article called Constrained After College states that, among all U.S. college graduates the average student debt is $23,300 (Gleason). Reasons backing why the opportunity is not assured is that many believe that things like fear of student debt make it harder to find salaried careers to start a life out of. Many also believe if there was a poor up bringing in a family, you have every chance to make it a better life. However, families in that position don’t always have the resources and funds to give that opportunity to their

It all started in the 1980s, when the “college premium” began to rise. Younger adults went to college and got degrees. Today the pre-adults are put to the side to transition into adulthood. Women and men are not the same as they used to be. When the women would stay home and the men would provide for his family. In this generation children or marriage can easily be skipped. Young Americans go through a “quarter life crisis” which is to worry about their future. People are getting married later, “by 2000 only one third had reached that milestone”.

Largely because of the $1.3 trillion worth of outstanding student loan debt in the United States, most young adult college graduates are in stressful, limiting, and precarious situations as they attempt to launch their lives into adulthood. Indeed, some have dubbed the Millennial generation the “boomerang generation” because after college so many graduates are moving back in with their parents rather than getting their own homes and beginning their own independent paths (Austin 329). Some studies show that as many as one half of college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed, the latter meaning either part time work

Perusing higher education, going to college, getting a degree seems to be way too easy for people to accomplish these days. Getting through high school is simple enough, all you have to do is show up and stay on task. The next step after high school is college for most people, anyone can do it, but why is it so simple? College used to be difficult to achieve, you go to college and people look up to you. The answer to all of this, Financial Aid, the government will pay for your college tuition based on your family’s income.

When we were younger, we were told that we had the world at our fingertips and that anything was possible. We could be anything we wanted and not have to worry about a thing, except maybe disappointing our parents. However, as we grew up, it became quite clear that that is no longer the case. The price of college has skyrocketed within the past 20 years, while the average income for a family has remained relatively the same. With a college diploma becoming more and more necessary to get a decent paying job and colleges being too much to pay for,

As stated before, College is too expensive and leaves people in huge debt. Even people who leave college with no degree are still in a lot of debt. “Students from middle-class families are leaving college with no degree, often with loans they cannot repay.” Which leads to homelessness and hunger. Which is a bigger problem

Dwyer, et. al., argue that the generational shift has directly impacted younger generations because the transition to adulthood has become harder and in order for younger generations to be independent, they must “[make] consequential choices within the opportunities and constraints of their social context” (Dwyer, et. al., 729). Essentially, younger generations do not have the same financial means that older generations have, therefore, they must take on some form of debt in order to advance further and to better their standing in society. For example, student loans help people attain higher education which is a long-term investment: “a college education is an investment in human capital that is crucial to improving one’s life chances” (Dwyer, et. al., 729). College education is worth the positive debt because it opens a person up to more opportunities like employment or professional degrees, such as law and medical degrees.

In Joey Koyle’s article, “Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?”, Koyle argues from a subjective and objective point of view that the current millennials are an inadvertently screwed generation. Koyles “shows” and “tells” his readers that as a result of the current economy, the rising increase of national debt, the lag into adulthood, the stress that comes with owning a home, and the right and left wing political parties make it almost impossible for young adults to become financial stable Americans. Koyle does not believe that young adults are not financial responsible. Rather, unable to succeed as a result of the policies that used to run this country.

“We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved” (Reagan, 2017). This might be the way to go for today’s millennials futures. College tuition has become a great financial burden over the course of a few years. After high school, students have many different career options such as: being apart of the workforce, joining the military, and of course. . . going to college. Many who choose the workforce and the military over college though is almost always for the same reason though. College is just too expensive. Living in too much debt could lead to lots of stress in life, and no one wants to stress about getting a higher education just to make it through life. Many students who do choose college over the workforce

Students can spend their whole lives lusting after a college degree, and saving up vast sums of money in order to accomplish this dream. Once they finally reach the college campus they must merely select the major they want to spend a grueling four years learning everything about. Graduates then enter the job market confident that they’ll spend the rest of their live working in that field; however, this is not always the case. While all majors may seem equal on a university level, some majors are better than others when faced with the inconvenient truth of job availability. There should be more focus on helping students decide on a major that will prove fruitful in the labor market, rather than just getting them to college.

What ever happened to keeping an open mind? What happened to becoming as knowledgeable as one can be? It seems these days students are urged younger and younger to determine a career path. Students often become overly preoccupied about what they are going to do in life, and they cannot slow down long enough to decide what they want to do and what interests them.

This is where I was for 12 years of my life, as well as many other 18 and 19 year olds entering college right now. We left high school “prepared for college” however, when I look around, not a single young adult in my age range actually enjoys what they’re majoring. What caused this? What caused so many teens to be so unwavering about what major they were majoring in? Was it their parents? Was it society? No, it was school. School trained us in our ABCs, 123s =, Sine and cosigns, and lack of confidence in what we wanted to do and how big we wanted to dream. In short, my peers lacked a sense of wonder and