Who Is The Most Important Part Of Your Life?

Since the world is overpopulated, we stick the eighteen-year-olds in colleges to temporarily get rid of them. We also fool ourselves into believing that these actions are good for them. Most of these unwanted young adults eventually learn to like it, and those that don’t drop out. The conservative Carneigie Commission estimated that five to thirty percent of students are in College reluctantly. Also buy giving figures of some surveys that students took, the author states that students think education is less and less important.

After high school, many students make the decision on attending college based off of the things their parents/ teachers may have taught them when they were young. For example, many students further their education because throughout their lifetime they’re told they have to. In school we’re taught that in order for us to receive good jobs, and make a decent amount of money we have to have a college degree. Some are even taught that they must go beyond the undergrad and receive their masters, and doctorate degrees if they really want to be known as something in this world. While others go because it would make their parents proud, or to fulfill the legacy of being a first generation college student in their families. While this may be the case majority of the time, if you’re like me you go because

I think some students are going to college just to go to college or because their parents told them too. Then they end up in a major that don't make them money and they can't drop out because their parents will look at them funny. Lol yes, that’s a famous Kanye line from “All Falls Down”. But seriously, my advice is for the youth to research whatever career field they want to enter and look at the 5 to 10-year projections. Research the work life balance, starting salary and potential for growth. Especially for your career path in your city. Look at which companies are hiring for people with your degree/skill set. Research!! Research!!

This is because people find something that they’re interested in and down the road they find out that they really hate that particular thing. For example when i was starting high school I wanted to be a physical therapist, or something in the medical field. Then I started to research what i had to do to be in that position. I found out that you needed lots of schooling for a very long time and pay lots of money for it. For this reason I threw the medical field idea out the door. At this point I was a sophomore, and I had no idea what i wanted to do, I started to get worried. When I got home I asked my parents what would be a good field to go into. Both of them said the trades were very good to go into because you don't need college, you could start working straight out of school, or even in school. Next thing I know I apply to go to school at polaris to learn about HVAC (heating ventilation air conditioning) This shows that you really can do what you want and be happy, just because you think you really like something doesn’t mean that you can’t find something else to do and be happy with it. There is tens of thousands of paths you can take its pretty amazing that the American people have all of these different opportunities to live differently in this

Nowadays, all students should perform well in high school, apply to many universities, and attend the most prestige universities they can get accepted into to eventually end up in thousands of dollars’ worth of debt and a better career for their future families, or at least that’s what students are told. Students are going into higher education because they’ve been told all throughout their school years that college will lead to more happiness, money, and stability after their college careers are over. With the mentality of success and happiness after school has ended, students attending higher education seem ignore what would be coming their way during their college years. Even though there is the common mentality that higher education leads

There are the students who decide not to go to college and start a career instead. They enter true adult life right out of high school. Life for those students is not getting any better. From 1987 to 2007, average lifetime income for a high school graduate dropped by 20 percent while the average lifetime income for college graduates has raised by one percent (Davies). The value of a high school diploma is dropping. The knowledge gained in high school is not enough for a good paying job. For those looking to go on to a higher education are also unprepared. They are paying large amounts of money for college to learn what they should already know. This problem with young adults can be traced back to school before high school.

This can be seen in the significant rise in the number of people attending college. Fall-term enrollment rose from 7.4 million in 1970 to 12.7 million in 1999 and has been steadily increasing since (Wonacott 3). Today, many students, that might have otherwise never enrolled, are pressured into attending college by parents and other role models. Even the American government is pursuing the idea of everyone having a degree. “...federal policy, backed by billions of taxpayer dollars in loans and grants, has aggressively encouraged more and more students to try to obtain a college education.”(Murray 2). Secondary schools are pushing harder for their graduates to move on to higher education as well. According to Charles Murray, “ A survey of high school students found that more than 90% of them were encouraged by their high-school counselors to go to college” (Murray 1). This shows that more people are subscribing to the idea that everyone should go to college, and for good reason. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 19 of the 20 highest paying jobs require a bachelor’s degree or higher (Occupational). If someone wants to have a high-paying, professional career they must attend

Many adults or including everyone believes college is only for children/people that want to become doctors, lawyers

In the beginning of the term the class had a discussion about why we are attending college and why they choose the major we are in. Many of the students answer that because they wanted to gain knowledge but also other responded because without an education you cannot get a lot of money. In the article “Making college relevant” by Kate Zernike quoted that in a survey done in Los Angeles, California to 400,000 incoming freshmen in 1971 their answers were that only 37 percent went to college to get money and 73 percent to gain knowledge. The same survey was done in 2009 but the percentages flipped 78 percent wanted money and 48 prefered to gain knowledge. Our percentages were very similar to the 2009 ones. We are in a society where you are expected

College is a stepping stone into the real world. Many students would agree they pursue a college degree to obtain more money in their career. However, this pursuit isn’t only because of money, but also led by the heart-felt desires of the students. Conversely, Harvey Bump comments “Only those who are independently wealthy can afford the luxury of developing their souls while in college. College education in 2015 must be job training”. There is no exclusiveness to students who want to follow what majors they’re interested in. Lynn O’Shaughnessy clarifies in her article, “8 Reasons Not to Get a Business Degree”, that parents pressure their children into selecting “practical majors” based on their perception of what the job market needs. Many

College is where the job hunt truly begins. It is where young students acquire the necessary skills to go into their field of choice later. College is also the place to experiment with different specialties to make sure they enjoy the field of work they originally thought about when first starting. There is no reason why college students cannot find something they have a passion for during their education. They are given so much academic freedom to explore anything they want, and yet, so many go on to do jobs they have little to no passion for; that could be because of the way children are raised leading up to their college careers. Susan Engel recounts an event she witnessed at an elementary school in which a few students were talking about

There are many reasons I want to go to college; my family all went to college, it allows me an opportunity to expand my knowledge on topics I am interested in, and it’s a chance to meet new people and make lifetime connections. Everyone in my family is very educated. My parents both have PhDs in psychology, my older sister is going on her junior year in college, and all of my extended family are all educated professionals. School is a way of life for my family. We are all very curious about everything and that inquisitive gene definitely got passed down to me. Since many high schools require that many core classes have to be completed in order to graduate I feel like it greatly diminishes the ability for students to focus on issues and topics

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.

The “normal” for teenagers is to go through high school and then go off to college to learn more about common knowledge and their desired career path. This “normal” is enforced by teachers, relatives, and even peers. With all of these sources enforcing this idea upon current teenagers, it is causing some students to be pressured so much into just going to college after high school. Today’s students should not be pressured this much and this is not right because college is not for everyone, college is not cheap, and there are a lot of things that go along with becoming a college student.

This leads us to another big issue, the fact that many students are not properly prepared by their school or college counselors in order to get through the college process or to achieve beyond getting admitted into a school. Jason Deparle from The New York Times reports about three students who showed a promising future after they graduated high school. However four years passed and not one of them has achieved a degree, and a big reason was that they were not prepared to meet ends meet in