Why Do You Go to College? 3

This is a question I’ve never really asked myself. After all, it was just the thing to do–especially when your family runs on the basis of 3 steps. Step 1: graduate from high school; Step 2: Go to college; Step 3: Get married. After I graduated from high school I went straight to college along with most of my other Class of 2008 peers. It was just what you do and though I briefly thought about taking a year off to actually decide on my major, I was eventually pressured into going right away.

It’s an interesting question, “Why do you go to college?” especially since a bachelor’s degree is touching on the bare minimum and the outrageous costs of tuition, books, and interest on loans is making it difficult for students to survive post-college. Some friends of mine have argued “what’s the point? You go to college, get in debt, graduate to a job market without any jobs and end up working at McDonald’s anyway.”  Though its hard to argue with the downsides to being a student, I’d have to say not everything is about the money.

While a vast majority of the reasons us students go to college is for a gateway to a better, independent life via getting a job, I hope that students also recognize a college is the last place we’ll get to interact with so many new kinds of people and to learn in a mutual learning environment about things we may not have had an interest in before. While to some the cost of being eternally in debt doesn’t outweigh the pros of a more mentally satiated life, I believe there is no right or wrong answer to this question.  I suppose it deals with what you want to do and how you can achieve it.  I work at The Printed Blog, and my boss has never graduated from college and yet is a brilliant man with a go-getter attitude that has allowed him to succeed as an entrepreneur.

So why do you go to college? Tell me in the comments below!