Chris’s last blog post..Love, Love, Love This:

Secondly, a lot of students (I’ll admit myself included) expect jobs to fall out of the sky when they graduate, but that isn’t always the case, especially now. It took me nearly three years to land a full-time job when I graduated in 2001. You still have to work hard, which ties in nicely with the part about growing and maturing.

And maybe, just maybe, there’s a tiny part of me that hates it when ABC profiles a college football player who, inevitably, is majoring in communications.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I look at the idea of college vs. no college in a new light.

Brad Marley’s last blog post..Is a college degree worth the price?

Without my degree I felt like I had something to prove. It made me study harder and know more than I probably would have bothered with if I weren’t out to prove I wasn’t ignorant.

With my degree I know better how to think critically. It comes with having to do it over and over again. But what’s more I trust what I know because it’s been graded by someone accredited to grade things, to give me insights and to push me further.

I trust myself and my knowledge more because of the “piece of paper”. However with that being said, I’m no better than someone without the paper, just differently experienced.

And truly, while all people can benefit from being enrolled in any educational environment, some people just aren’t able to access it. Yes, there are programs, but many fall through. And having education beyond a high school degree, in the US, is a privilege. Being a person unable to attain that privilege can make a person understandably bitter and derisive about the whole college experience.

Julianna’s last blog post..To Thy Own Self Be True

I got caught up in working in the IT field early on and never looked back.

I completely agree with your analogy that Brad is 100% right and wrong.

College is not about the degree but about the learning process and experiences at getting that degree.

College teaches you how to learn / solve problems / and grow.

But that College does not have to be a traditional 4 year College.

While I’m a proponent society should not enforce college immediately after high school graduation, there is no denial college is crucial for one’s growth and maturity.

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