Real Life: Put on Hold due to College? By: The Student’s Voice

So we are in school searching for our dream career.  We have selected the major we know we want, we get a job in that field while we are in college, and now we get to the interesting part.  Our life in education is restricting us from moving forward with our careers that we go to college to be successful in.  For example, not being able to work on a cetain day and make money due to the fact we have to attend a basic college class that is required, example enviromental biology.  How am I going to use that in my major?  I am not interesting in magnolia trees, and learning about these trees in keep me from advancing in career.  Now sure, if you have a part time job working to make through to get through college it is fine going to these classes.  This argument I feel mainly applies to seniors and juniors who have done a possible internship and have recieve a full time job.  I know for a fact with my job if I was availiable more, I could easily be furthering myself in my career if i didnt have to leave early for class and do the one thing that school tries to teach us, work hard.  I again think that we the people need to step back and take a look at our education system.  Just because it has been done this way since, who knows how long, times have changed, technology has changed but we still stick to the same guns we have had since the 50’s.  On the other hand, sure it is easy to understand that going through the regular college process makes sense.  For 70 percent of students sure, BUT, I ask you to look at who the most successful college students are.  Not the ones changing majors, and going through all the classes.  But the one’s who have fast tracked themselves and have been working in their selected industry for years.  This is why some of us chose to go to school at FGCU, due to its demographic.  This argument reflects and argues thing like our norms, and regular ideas about education as well as is not being able to work the rational decision?  Think about this and let me know.

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