Daily College Social Problems: By: The Students Voice

So, we are in college.  We being the students of the university.  We are the top now, but some who did not go to college are frowd upon by society.  Why?  Due to the fact they are under achievers right?  Wrong.  What is college?  How many of us will remeber what we learned in even our latest year of school.  I do belive in education to the fullest, but in some classes I focus more on how to beat the system than trying to learn the subject.  I do belive school has made me a better person in the longrun.  Not because I learned more from taking statistics, or spa management, but for the fact it made me learn how to become a worker.  It has allowed me to learn to manage my time and learn how to work.  For this I will be forever greatful, BUT, don’t you feel if we learned how to do this while learning about our careers or the real world help? 

For example, how about a class on how to learn baout using credit cards?  How many college student are in debt due to the simple thing of swiping plastic?  Don’t get me wrong, acounting is one thing, but do you think if you took an accounting class you could step in and keep the books for a million dollar company?  Hell no.  You would have to spend years to learn their system in and out.  Just because you know that assets equal liabalities blah blah blah you would be up creek with no paddle if you had no to train you.  So why not start the training now?  How about itstead of me learning that alligators are fiesty due to their enlarged medulaoblagata that I learn how to operate a 12 month budget? 

The oposing argument is that we are learning to learn in school.  To comprehend the world.  This is true but I am 22 now, and I still am learning somethings I know I will forget after I am tested on them.  The things I won’t forget are the things that allow me to put food on the table, drive a car, and make a living.  Why do you think students drop out?  They are lazy?  They are stupid?  No!  They just do not want to do four years of work that has nothing to do with thier real lives. Every person has to survive in the world and college and school become a NO choice option. 

I feel that people of the world are so use to this that it will never change.  I cansay some of college is designed to help you in the real world because this is true.  But if I could graduate with those credits are still get a degree I would only need 60 credit hours not 120. 

In the end, yes I feel college is needed, but, it should not be a do or die to be succesful.  It is to expensive and a 4 year process where 50 percent is fluff.  Bring on the things that allow me to grow and become better at what I want to do. 

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