There are many young adults who head straight into college right out of high school. Many are attending college for the wrong reasons. College is often treated like a social hub or a playground where students and hang out and have fun like there’s no tomorrow. Studying and doing work, seems to be the last thing anybody’s mind while in college. The media hasn’t helped much either with movies portraying college as a place where people can hang out, hookup, and party like there’s no tomorrow.
This is not what college was originally intended for. What college really was meant for is to expand one’s knowledge. This is a place to absorb knowledge and improve yourself. Isn’t this an expensive thing to experience? Financial aid makes college easily accessible.
Making a life decision based on money
People choose career based on how much money they can make. Making a career decision like this is not what you want to do. This is basically painting yourself into a corner. Imagine doing something that you don’t like for 40-50 years simply for the sake of money. For many young students, they envision their goal is to land a high paying job working 80 hours per week. That doesn’t sound very fun, nor healthy. Granted that there’s hardly such a thing as “the perfect job”, you should always at least try to pick a career that is at least related to your interest.
Use what you learn to better yourself and better the world
But college isn’t all about studying and staying up late night trying to finish a project just so you could get an “A” in the course. The purpose of college is to take in the information that you learn to further yourself.
Late night cramming isn’t going to get you anywhere. Sometimes it works and you end up retaining some information about a very specific topic within a 24 hour time span. But you just have to ask yourself: What happens after you’ve taken the test? You’ll forget everything you’ve crammed a few days later. You aren’t actually putting this information to good use. Simply studying for the sake of a good grade, isn’t studying at all. In essence, you’re just working and instead of being paid with money, you’re awarded with a good grade. This isn’t learning, it’s just wasting time.
Many students and their parents have only one goal in sight: Get accepted to college. But why? Eventually in about a decade, nearly every young adult will have a bachelor’s degree, thus reducing the value that it actually holds. People are learning more about how student loans work , thus enabling them to attend practically any college or university that they’re accepted in. What should be happening is that people should be learning a skillset that allows them to better themselves.
