Is College Worth Your Time Essay
Is college worth your time and money?
“Finding imperfections in a College applications is like looking for a needle in a haystack.” A number of numerous studies have shown to be that college graduates are 85% more likely to live a better lifestyle and have a better income than people without a college degree. I believe college is a place everybody should attend sometime in their life. Therefore it does not have to be right after high school or a thing you should be rushed into.
Steve jobs stated in his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, June 12th that “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other's’ opinions drown
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And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to
be priceless later on.” Although Steve Jobs was more than successful you can see he admits it
wasn't easy and it wasn't good all the time. He went through difficult things to be as Successful
as he was. Just like any other person he did have rough times but even though he did drop out of
college he wouldn't of been as successful as he was if he didn't at least attend college and learn
what he did.
Although Steve Jobs was very successful things can fall apart from one second to another
“We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage
into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest
creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired
someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first
year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and
eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.
“Finding imperfections in a College applications is like looking for a needle in a haystack.” A number of numerous studies have shown to be that college graduates are 85% more likely to live a better lifestyle and have a better income than people without a college degree. I believe college is a place everybody should attend sometime in their life. Therefore it does not have to be right after high school or a thing you should be rushed into.
Steve jobs stated in his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, June 12th that “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other's’ opinions drown
out …show more content…
And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to
be priceless later on.” Although Steve Jobs was more than successful you can see he admits it
wasn't easy and it wasn't good all the time. He went through difficult things to be as Successful
as he was. Just like any other person he did have rough times but even though he did drop out of
college he wouldn't of been as successful as he was if he didn't at least attend college and learn
what he did.
Although Steve Jobs was very successful things can fall apart from one second to another
“We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage
into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest
creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired
someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first
year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and
eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.