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Thinking about going to college? Well, either if one agrees or disagrees, a college education is a very helpful variable in life. When going to college, one can be able to obtain a better job and stay in it longer than others,depending on how high or how better the amount of education a person has. Once a person goes to college their life can change entirely. College can bring a better life than how it all started because of college degrees. Education and hard work can really pay off once…

Freeman Hrabowski Colleges Prepare People for Life and Liz Addison Two Years Are Better than Four both explore the idea of how college is the right choice for the moment and the further. Even though Hrabowski and Addison both address that college gives people a platform to start a better life, Hrabowski provides a more convincing argument for he has a better emphasis and understanding on higher education's effect on people, college success rate information and better real-life examples.…

Chapter three of Dark Ages Ahead by Jane Jacobs takes up the debate about “real” education vs mere “credentialing” where the author strongly argues that education no longer exists in the same form as it did before due to society's decision to put more value into credentials. Most people think of credentials as the end result, such as getting a degree and not the “real education” that led them to that degree. From Jacobs’s view, the trend of credentialing is noticeable through the difference in…

Every student has a different reason for why they choose to attend college. In “What is the Point of College?” written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he identifies two psychological ideologies of why students attend college, which he calls “Utopia U” and “Utility U.” . Students will either psychologically go to a Utopian University or Utility University, though it all depends on their reasoning to why they are attending college. If one attends a Utopia UniveristyUniversity it would mean they are…

In my life I have been fortunate enough to have two parents that went to college, have well paying jobs and take education seriously. Naturally, I have been expected to try my best throughout grade school and after go to college to continue my education. If I had not grown up in a home where my parents ask where I am and who I am with and make sure I am okay, things might have turned out differently for me. “I [have] realized how difficult it is to separate the two. The expectations that others…

Do you choose to be a victim or do you take charge of your life to be a creator? Dr. Skip Downing is the author of a book called On Course: Strategies for creating success in College and in Life. The book is about the choice of being a Creator (with a capital “C”) and a Victim (with a capital “V”), which Dr. Downing defines as “A Victim mindset keeps people from seeing and acting on choices that could help them achieve the life they want. A Creator mindset causes people to see multiple options,…

Judi Ying Professor Boswell English 101 24 May 2017 Why Going to College is Important Although some people would prefer not going to college, other people may say that going to college is important. Connecting with students and professors on campus will not only help the student make friends but they can also learn skills they need for after college. Going to college including staying there is important because it helps develop life skills, a career for themselves and also improves communication…

What A College Degree Can Really Do Going to college or pursuing some sort of postsecondary education is an expectation that is heavily instilled into today’s youth. Society tells young men and women that in order to be successful they need an education: with knowledge there is power and opportunity. They are told encourage to aim for careers, mortgages and a salaries instead of having minimum wage jobs and living paycheck to paycheck. However, the same people that expressed this notion forget…

In both “Stop Scaring Students,” by Devorah Lieberman and “College is a Waste of Time and Money,” by Caroline Bird the value of a college education is discussed. The need for dedication in both money and studies required for a college education could be a real set-back for some students; therefore, potential college students should acknowledge both the negative and positive qualities of a four year education. Bird and Lieberman have two differing opinions of the value of a college education,…

If It’s Not Broken, Don’t Fix It. My first semester of college was not what I hoped it would be. I not only did not do very well, but managed to make myself extremely unhappy in the process. I learned from this. What was the lesson? College is hard work. College is really hard work. I had never realized this. Until I came to OSU, being an alumnus was just what I saw physically; going to football games, stickers on cars, and old photos. However, it finally dawned on me that all of…