Student Debt in College
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To Debt or Not to Debt:
Why College is Worth the Investment When most people think about college they generally have the same mind set. You are taught from a young age that college is the only way to go but is that true? With recent tuition risings and the “American dream” seeming to vanish, college doesn’t seem to be worth its value anymore. Others believe that its college or you will be working at a fast food joint for the rest of your life. Most people in-between believe that money is the determining factor but with the amount of options should people even worry about this? Even though college might seem like a stretch with tuition rising, college is something more people should take part in because there are so many answers to get past the money and just enjoy the full college experience. For most students applying for colleges is all they have thought about since starting kindergarten. For others it’s been a lifelong dread about how do they even begin to try and
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afford it. With all the horror stories about finishing college with such enormous debts it can really turn student s away from college. Although the prices may have gone up the investment is still something to pursue. “Even in this economy, college graduates are much better off than high-school graduates. Yes, white-collar employees are losing their jobs. But the unemployment rate for people over twenty five years old who hold at least a bachelor’s degree is 4.4 percent, compared with 9.3 percent for the people that age who hold only a high-school diploma, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” as put by Robin Wilson in A Lifetime of Student Debt, Not likely. Students complain about the large debts they can conjure up during these college years you truly are better off with it. It’s not just about the piece of paper; it’s about the opportunities that it creates. For most people college can be the best time of their lives. You just got to be
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To Debt or Not to Debt:
Why College is Worth the Investment When most people think about college they generally have the same mind set. You are taught from a young age that college is the only way to go but is that true? With recent tuition risings and the “American dream” seeming to vanish, college doesn’t seem to be worth its value anymore. Others believe that its college or you will be working at a fast food joint for the rest of your life. Most people in-between believe that money is the determining factor but with the amount of options should people even worry about this? Even though college might seem like a stretch with tuition rising, college is something more people should take part in because there are so many answers to get past the money and just enjoy the full college experience. For most students applying for colleges is all they have thought about since starting kindergarten. For others it’s been a lifelong dread about how do they even begin to try and
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afford it. With all the horror stories about finishing college with such enormous debts it can really turn student s away from college. Although the prices may have gone up the investment is still something to pursue. “Even in this economy, college graduates are much better off than high-school graduates. Yes, white-collar employees are losing their jobs. But the unemployment rate for people over twenty five years old who hold at least a bachelor’s degree is 4.4 percent, compared with 9.3 percent for the people that age who hold only a high-school diploma, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” as put by Robin Wilson in A Lifetime of Student Debt, Not likely. Students complain about the large debts they can conjure up during these college years you truly are better off with it. It’s not just about the piece of paper; it’s about the opportunities that it creates. For most people college can be the best time of their lives. You just got to be
Cited: Birkenstein, Cathy, and Russel Durst. "Chapter 14 Introduction: Is Higher Education Worth the Price?" They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. By Gerald Graff. 2nd ed. N.p.: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 256-73. Print. Wilson, Robin. "A Lifetime of Student Debt, Not Likey." They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 2nd ed. N.p.: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 256-73. Print