First off, I cant figure out how to make the font bigger, and its frustrating squinting my eyes and this small 10pt font…I think I will just copy and paste from word.
Its close to midnight and ive already taken a good year off from college. Such a big, common word conforming us once again to mainstream society…What kept me from going last year was not only a lack on interest but the major price tag that followed..is paying up to $50,000 a year really worth the paper handed to me at the end of four years and a debt that will take up to decades to repay? Why is the American education system so expensive, and do the costs really outway the benefits? With the average family earning just shy over $40,000 a year, sending one child off to college could be anywhere from 15% of there annual income all the way above their income.
With so much pressure for high school students to enroll in a four year college or university, what happened to the days where all you needed was experience to find the right job. I find myself pretty lucky, with a great job that I could easily and have advanced in with only a highschool degree..the debate still lingers in my head if I should really attend a four year university this fall.
So I guess my questions revolve around these…
1) Do the benefits out way the lump sum of paying for college?
2) What happens when the cost of attending college is more than a families annual income?
3) And is it right for businesses to judge prospective workers more on there education and degree rather then on their job skills and experience?
Oh and excuse my spelling, I tend to not spell-check with I blog
College life is sweet, and so is a B.A. And, you can get one for pretty cheap if you look hard enough. UC Berkeley isn't cheap, but it isn't NYU, either. So are most state schools, and frankly, where you get your Bachelor's degree doesn't mean a whole lot. If you want a job that requires graduate or professional school, THAT'S the name on the degree that will matter.
One of my professors talks about this all the time. He didn't believe all the hype when he was in high school, so he did two years at a community college, transferred to CSU Chico for three years for his BA, went to Stanford for his master's and UC Berkeley for his doctorate. Now he teaches at Berkeley and couldn't be happier; he didn't have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans after graduating from Chico. He had scholarships for community college so he never paid for that; earned excellent grades while buzzed at Chico and that gave him merit scholarships at Stanford, and worked off his Berkeley loans doing a public service program.
I'm not saying this prof. is any idol, or that he's not exaggerating some of his story, but it's impressive he was able to accomplish so much without the fancy undergraduate degree, and I think there's certainly something to be said for that.
Besides, where can you really go in life if you're bogged down with undergrad loan debt and have to take whatever job you can get in 6 months?
Of course, if I applied and got into Harvard or Yale, I probably would have gone. I absolutely admire the friend of mine who turned down Stanford for UC Santa Cruz.
Yes, go to college! I mean, continue to attend college. It might seem like a lot of money, or you might think that you are foregoing income, but with a degree you will over the course of your lifetime make more than with just a high school diploma.