Value of a College Education Is education important? Many people have been asking themselves this same question for years. With the unemployment rates at an all-time high‚ many people have decided to go back to school to pursue an education that can better their financial situation. According to the Baum‚ the unemployment rate is at 7.3%. Therefore‚ Americans wonder if going back to school is worth it. Just 5 percent of the public says students get excellent value for the money they spend on college
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question sometime in their life‚ should I go to college? Going to college opens doors to increased salary‚ broader career opportunities‚ and options for individual and professional growth that Americans can’t get anywhere else. Everyone should go to college. First‚ Americans have more career opportunities if they go to college. According to UCLA‚ the portion of incoming freshmen that cited‚ “To be able to get a better job”‚ as a very important reason for attending college reached an all-time high of
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I have always heard people say‚ “College is the key to success” and “The best way you could have great job‚ is by going to college”. Honestly‚ I always believed that you do not have to go to college. I never even wanted to go to college. At that time‚ I felt that college was a waste of time. The reasons why I decided to go to college was to see if college is for me. Secondly‚ I decided to go because of my mom and my mentor. Lastly‚ I want to better myself as person and succeed in life. My first reason
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The reason why I go to college is that I want to improve myself in some ways. First‚ I can get much more independent after I go to college. In college‚ I have to decide everything by myself‚ and I should be responsible for everything I said and did. There are many things that I never did before I go to college. For example‚ I have never live in the dormitory before. It was the first time that I lived with other people from different places. Everyone’s lifestyles are different‚ and I have to be accustomed
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Juhee Lee Professor Clark DEVR 0320 21 January 2013 Attitude Before I read the short essay “ATTITUDE” by Charles Swindoll‚ attitude means mere a physical position or a manner to me. As a non-native English speaker‚ I just consider the word “attitude” as a way to show one’s posture toward something. However‚ I could not help admitting that my concept of attitude was totally wrong right after meeting Swindoll’s essay. I always thought that someone’s success depends on his gift or intelligence
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Due to the title’s name‚ most people would think that narrator’s about to list reasons of why he chose to go to college. The seven lines state that if he didn’t go to college‚ his father said he would break his son’s jaw. The audience is not expecting that the narrator’s only reason to go to college is because he doesn’t want his father to break his jaw. Most people usually have several reasons to go to college‚ whilst the narrator has only one which is a very different reason from others. The speaker’s
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into community colleges has increased dramatically through the years. Numerous students are choosing to attend community college for the first two years rather than a four-year university. As tuition inflates each year‚ student enrollment is starting to decrease. “According to the College Board‚ in 2011-2012‚ tuition and fees cost an average of $28‚500 at private nonprofit four-year colleges‚ $8‚244 at public four-year colleges‚ and $2‚963 at public community colleges” (Community college value more
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You have a choice to go to college after high school or not‚ but most people choose to go to college because having a degree makes it easier to find jobs. When people go to college most people go for a bachelor’s degree and there are 59 million people who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. In college. So many people go to college each year and some people say college is the best four years of your life and can be true but it will cost you. For most people college is really expensive for all but
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Why did I wait so long to go back to school has been my thought since I started classes on –online? It has been such an enriching experience‚ since starting classes‚ and I really regret starting as late as I did‚ but I am very excited that I did. By making the choice to go back to school as an adult it has not only enriched my life but my children lives as well. Working out the time and mustarding up the energy to complete a degree was not all what I wanted to look forward to‚ but I knew that without
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As I sit here with my mind thinking about the future and how I’m goanna get into a 4 year college and attempt to piece together an answer for the question. I think to myself and ask another question and that’s why do I want to go to college. The ultimate response is that in my personal life I‘ve always love computers and technology and I always wanted to pursue in becoming a computer engineer. It has been my personal goal that I hope to achieve as a University of Arlington student and which I am
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