Why I Want To Attend College

In order to appeal to those who pay their way through college, I must learn about their experience in a comprehensible manner. In The Atlantic’s The Myth of Working Your Way Through College, Svati Kirsten Narula debunks the theory that it’s still practical for college students to pay their way through school. She analyzes how in the 70s, a student working a minimum wage job like scooping ice cream, could effectively pay for a semester’s tuition in just two weeks of 8.5 hour work days. However, now college is disproportionately expensive and “the same student would have to work 48 hours a week at that minimum wage job to pay for his classes” (Narula). After coming to the conclusion that working 48 hours a week wouldn’t leave enough time to go to class, study, and have any

While many students will have to spend lots of money paying for college, I will be earning paychecks. I know that it will take some time before I earn paychecks large enough to pay for a house of my own, but I am confident that with hard work and patience I will be living independently sooner than I would if I attended college. In his article, “10 Rules for Going to College When Nobody Expected you to,” Joe Rodriquez actually said, “don’t worry too much about the high cost of college tuition”(12). On the contrary, the high cost of college tuition is something that everyone should worry about. It’s easy to say “don’t worry about it” when you are not the person who has to pay for something. There are news stories all of the time that talk about the enormous amount of students who have debt that they can’t pay because of the lack of jobs for college graduates. College tuitions costs have risen drastically over the past decades. Going to college is good idea for students who know the job they want requires a degree. If a student is unsure about their future career, then they should consider working for a while before they spend money on college

Media surrounds us, from the graphic design on our morning cellophane coffee cups, to the carefully designed spreads in the magazines we religiously read. The world of Media and Film is beautifully complex, and something which I strongly want to be involved with. I have always immersed myself in the world of Media, and have only ever felt truly satisfied when I’ve been involved in broadening my knowledge and understanding of the industry.

I would like to attend college because I want to be successful in life, I understand it is getting harder to get a job with only a high school diploma and it is sure to get worse. My goals for the future include getting into a college with a good teaching and mathematics program, this could give me a variety of jobs and I was speaking to someone and they told me that people are looking out for women who have a degree in mathematics which will help me to obtain a good paying job.

For the past several years, I’ve worked so hard to put myself in school with the help of my family. Ever since I started NDSU, I maintained two jobs (one full time and one part time) to ensure that I’m able to pay for school fees, rents, bills, and

If possible most high school students get a job whether that’s during the summer or even throughout the school year. Similarly, I had been looking for a job for some time as well. Fortunately, I had found some temporary work during the summer but decided that my love for learning and education was far more important. Then during the beginning of this sophomore year, I meet a gentleman through school who had sent his sons through a college program while they were still in high school. He proposed the idea that I should look at my early college career as an investment. His reasoning behind going to school instead of working was that each year completed would mean another full year in the workforce creating an income that is more than three times

Although I enjoyed working at Wendy’s I soon realized that I didn’t want to be working in the fast food business much longer. Most of my co-workers were above the age of thirty, and almost all of them needed more than one job to survive. This would be a huge factor in my decision to go to college. However, I was very aware of the huge amount of debt that comes with going to a university, or state college. I wasn’t making very much money at this job. I only made about four hundred dollars a month working part time. After giving myself some time to think I decided that with the help of my parents I would be able to attend community college. The benefit to this would be the price of four semesters being equal to one semester at a big

In the passed four years I have realized my passion for learning. Though like every other high school student I love summer vacation, at end of August I am excited and ready to go back to school. I have realized the power of learning and understood that knowledge can take you where you want to go. Not only that but I understand, being a middle-class girl, how lucky I am to have the opportunity of school and the option of college. Nevertheless, it is not that easy. College is expensive where ever you go and no one has thousands of dollars lying around to pay for it all. I have been blessed to have parents who saved some money to help me get through college, yet I will still have debt. Having a passion for learning and going into a science or

Not saving a portion of my pay from my summer job meant still relying on my parents for money at age 17. I was found begging my full time working parents at times for more money each week in order to enjoy the activities that bring joy to my life. Looking at my future began to worry not only my parents, but also myself because of my choice in career. My dream is to become an elementary school teacher and continue working alongside my love for children. If in the future I am to successfully provide for myself, given the salary that average teachers make, I have to learn to save money and start as soon as possible. I plan to continue my dedication to my local swim team this summer by coaching, and hope to correct my mistakes made in the past. With the amount that I will make this summer, I plan to save a portion of each paycheck that I make in a savings account that I have opened with our local bank. This alteration in my lifestyle during my summer before college, will help to improve my spending habits and relieve a portion of my feelings of stress towards the

There are some financial challenges that I will face with my new educational opportunities. Since I am about to finish Dual-Graduation, I have already had to pay full college tuition, books, and gas to drive to school. These expenses are worsened because of my high school status; I can’t receive financial aid. With this road-block, I have been working part-time in Branson as a photographer to help pay school expenses. I am extremely thankful that my parents have aided in my tuition. Unfortunately, my father is in school to earn his master’s and my mother is going to beauty school, so I’m not the only person in my household who will have student debt. Normally this wouldn’t have been an issue but my mother lost her job last fall and so my family’s

Working for my education has never been easy. For my first year and a half it was a balancing act between counting out cash drawers as a part time retail manager and spending hours in the library studying for my human biology tests. This experience, however, was eye opening. I suddenly caught myself doing countless hours of research about business related careers, which was fueled by my management position meant to fund my college degree. It was this situation that made me reimagine my goal to be a journalist and propelled me into the dreams of one day successfully running a business of my own. After all, my mother always told me that with my ambitious and outgoing personality, I could one day be a CEO. At my previous school, I had a wonderful

As society advances forward, the need for a college education is becoming increasingly inherent to upcoming students. Many students feel a need to work in order to pay for their education, but this can have mixed effects. Many fall off of their path of study and become entwined in a blue-collar life, they often cannot find their way out. A substantial amount of time and energy is required to flourish in college and a long shift at work can have a parasitic effect on a student’s academic potential. As a result working students find that their job can lead to them having lower grades and flunking courses. Students should not work throughout college because alternate forms of financial aid are available, the opportunity for academic success is limited, and personal free time is diminished. Failing school because you are having difficulty paying for school is outlandish. Measures have been emplaced to alleviate the financial worries of a college student, so working shouldn’t be much of a concern to them.

I feel like everyone deserves the right to higher education, no matter their family’s economic standing. This is how we can help facilitate economic flourish in our country. Those who are hardworking, passionate, motivate, and driven should get equal chance to make a difference in the world. And I believe that I am one of those students. In high school, I spent the summers working two jobs to help my family pay bills and during the school year, I was given the great opportunity to be Editor in Chief of my school’s newspaper, star in numerous theatrical productions, be a part of three honor societies, and push myself in Advance Placement and honors classes. I knew what I wanted and I knew what needed to be done: I wanted to get a chance to learn at one of top

Financial stability has been one of my greatest adversaries throughout my educational endeavors. Pursuing my degree in Education has been like swimming against the current. There have been many setbacks, plus I'm no Olympic swimmer. I come from a single-parent household. My mother works three jobs to get by. I work three part-time jobs, however, because of the rigorousness of the education program I am in, I work minimal hours. The program will become increasingly demanding; this will reduce my opportunities to work more hours in order to afford college. I find myself sometimes having to choose between good healthy meals for a week or paying my phone bill and car insurance, but who needs vegetables when inexpensive fast food chains are down

Despite financial hardship I have always done what is necessary to further my studies and work experience. This includes working at the age of 17 so I can fund my own education. Balancing school and work can be a hard task but I am left with no other option. I work as a part-time employee at a dental office in Washington, DC. I wish I can be fully focused on my education and not stress about funding my next semester. I always think that my coming semester may be my last semester because of financial