should you go to college is college worth it for a child to grow up into a self-sufficient
adult there are some stages that they have to go through it starts with getting the basics
in place learning how to feed yourself how to go to the bathroom on your own and how to maintain
personal hygiene by showering and brushing your teeth every day once these are set it's
now time for the toddler to understand how to interact with the world through the cultivation
of socially acceptable behaviors part of this is done at home where the Guardians give guidance
on what to do when the child is presented with different situations children also learn about
the world by observing adults around them as well as their peers however simply learning
how to interact with other people is not enough these days unless of course you do not need money
to make a living more often than not you'll need papers that show you got some form of education
or at the least that you're literate and can do basic math some career paths require a little more
than basic reading and simple calculations which is why there are higher levels of education for
anyone interested in learning a specific skill like engineering or so on and this brings us to
our topic today is college worth it should you go to college it's almost a given that as soon
as you learn to go potty most children will be sent to school to get an economically viable
education from kindergarten through high school we're taught that the end goal is
to get a degree that would get us a well-paying job that will set us for life but some of the
richest and most successful people of our time including Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg and Steve
Jobs did not complete their college education and if you're aspiring to be like one of these
gentlemen it might make sense to skip college altogether and get straight to building your
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so before you decide to not go to college let me tell you about why you should be going to college
first you get the chance to start on a clean slate without the baggage of friends from high
school or your family hovering over you this is particularly so if you've traveled some distance
from where you were raised it's an opportunity to completely rebrand yourself by adopting new
habits and shedding old ones especially if you feel that you had some less than savvy behaviors
in high school for example if you are a master procrastinator you can resolve to master some
self-discipline when your classes start and if you were a bully you can rebrand yourself into a
nice person more often than not this clean slate includes new friends and acquaintances college
is set in such a way that there are numerous spaces for interaction among students including
in classes in the dormitory in parties sporting events and during school plays in these spaces
you'll need a bunch of other people from literally all walks of life you'll enjoy the company of some
and barely stand others but at the end of year for years you'll have learned a lot about how
to interact with different people if you're lucky you'll leave with friends solid business contacts
and maybe even your worst enemy after all the best stories have villains since you spend so much time
with them the friends you make in college will likely stick with you for a very long time one
of them might become your best man or even your husband apart from providing the space for you
to make friends going to college also forms the basis for you to build your professional networks
the people you're sitting next to in your class will be in offices working as interns in a few
years and after some decades they might have graduated to top management being acquainted
or even friendly to these classmates will help your career in the long run your lecturers and
other members of your faculty are also a source of mentorship and guidance since they've been in
the field a little longer than you have research also shows that college graduates have a higher
earning potential than those who haven't been to college in 2019 for instance the unemployment
rate for those with a college degree in the United States varied between 3.7% December 2018 and 3.9%
December 2019 on the other hand those who had a high school diploma had a 4.4 percent chance of
not getting employed if therefore goes that if you want to increase your chances of landing a job you
should increase your level of education it's also important to note that the income that's earned
by an individual is heavily dependent on their level of education according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics those who have a basic education earned significantly less every week compared to
those who went beyond in 2019 for instance those with less than a high school diploma
earned between 490 four and six hundred and forty four dollars weekly while those who had graduated
took home between six hundred and thirty three and eight hundred and forty four dollars in contrast
those with bachelor's degrees earned between one thousand one hundred dollars and one thousand four
hundred and forty two dollars while those with a graduate or doctoral degree earned between
one thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars and one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight
dollars so if you want to be as rich as you can be in your industry but have no interest in starting
and running a successful business earn a few more degrees as you can see college is good for both
your social life and your career that's not all the benefits though because you can expect to
go home with soft skills such as a good ability to communicate orally and in writing critical
thinking and problem-solving skills as well as better time management and interpersonal skills
these skills are a side effect of you being to college rather than something you intentionally
go to learn in class but as shown by the likes of Zuckerberg and gates college is not for everyone
some people do well in class some not so much if you are not academically adept or if your career
doesn't require you to sit in a class or for years you don't need to spend the thousands of dollars
college is surely going to cost you not everyone can become a tenured professor in microbiology in
fact not a lot of people are interested in such a path so ask yourself is college your thing are you
willing to do four years of intense academics if your intention for pursuing a university education
is so that you and your high school friends can hang or so that you can turn up every day I'm here
to tell you not to bother in Hollywood colleges sometimes portrayed is an endless frat party and
it can be but there's hard work to be done as well and if all you want to do in college is get wasted
and party all the time do yourself the favor and stay at home speaking of money do you have
any idea how much it's going to cost you to get your bachelor's on average you're going to spend
between twenty-five thousand and fifty thousand dollars to pay for a degree depending on whether
your college is in-state or outside public or private and also depending on the major that
you're pursuing of course Community College is cheaper but even that could cost you up to ten
thousand dollars annually since most students can't afford to pay out of pocket most have
resorted to getting a student loan student loans are good as they help you pay for your tuition as
well as get you the Reese sources you need for classes however you will be saddled with it as
you start your career and a good chunkier income will be dedicated to settling this debt if you're
unsure about the value that College will give you economically enough to counter the cost to
getting the degree stay away finally and quite importantly don't go to college if you don't
want to most high school students are pressured by their parents or by their society's expectations
with regard to college if your motivation for pursuing higher education is so that mommy and
daddy don't get angry at you please don't do it your parents might have the best interests in
their hearts for you but only you can figure out what's best for you in a nutshell college is great
other than the outrageous cost there are so many benefits to getting the right college education
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