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The Importance Of Education In College

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I completely apply myself to finish high school with the highest GPA possible in order to get into a respectable school, and enroll in college right after high school. I choose to attend an in-state 4-year university while living with my parents. There are financial and developmental advantages to getting at least a bachelor’s degree. Longitudinal research suggests the longer a person remains in college, the higher they perform on Piaget’s formal operational tasks and other measures of abstract reasoning. Academic and vocational aspirations may also increase. I will probably meet people from racial or ethnic groups I’ve never encountered before, widening my moral and social reasoning. I will probably do well in college, because women study almost twice as much as men while partying 50% less.
During Emerging Adulthood, I decide against my parents’ wishes for me to study education and choose engineering (what I actually study). My doctor tells me I am in good shape. After graduating college, I enrolled full-time in a graduate school out of town, but the debt piled up too quickly and I withdrew. I moved back in with my parents to work full-time in order to pay off my debt. I attend classes part-time in the evening to finish my graduate program. In Young Adulthood, I finally found an internship in my field. A friend from college, Sarah, moves in. I have reconnected with a mutual college friend, started a relationship, and get engaged! We have a small ceremony, reception, and

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