Does generally a 21-year-old have all his/her life figured out by the time he or she graduates from college? Well, most likely the answer is “No.” There might be some few rising stars in them, who could know more assertively what they would want to accomplish in life, and maybe some of them as well already might have a job lined up for them even before they would have finished college. However, in contrast- and perhaps just like “Nemo,” the fish from the cartoonish Disney movie, many other alike young graduates in similar situation generally instead will be trying to learn their way through the vast “sea,” and either attempting to rediscover or to find their own selves simultaneously.
Similarly, the film The Graduate captures what some young
High school graduation marks the start of young adults’ lives, a time where they are expected to decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Many young adults are pressured into attending college, whether they have determined their goal or not, but is it necessary? “The Case Against College,” an article written by Linda Lee, a mother who has questioned the former belief that college equals success, claims that “not everyone needs a higher education.” College, though beneficial to many, is not for everyone and should not determine an individual’s life.
There you are, a teenage version of yourself. You’re most likely only seventeen or eighteen years old, but maybe you’re younger or maybe you’re older. Regardless of your age, you’ve clearly just had a serious discussion. The time has come for you to start making decisions about your life after high school. You know a lot about college. College is probably the only choice you’ve even considered. But do you really want to be in school for at least another two years? Is college even worth paying for? Why shouldn’t you just find a job and move on with your life? In this essay I will examine the valid opinions of other thinkers and attempt to provide a compelling argument about the importance of post-secondary education.
Is College Worth It? Is college really worth it? This is a question many students start to ask as the college cost increases and jobs are harder to get. Although getting accepted into a good college is a great start, the student needs to be motivated, talented, as well as creative. If a student has those qualities, that student will be successful in the future (Rouse, Cecilia E; debater 4).
Shapiro contrasts ENGOs with traditional NGOs, pointing out that ENGOs are more reliant on the public, while NGOs rely more on government. ENGOs are now participating with citizen and consumer survey research, and broadcasting that information through social media as well as official think tanks and government agencies. Chinese ENGOs often work with citizens’ groups around the world in an effort to bring accountability to government. These groups range from private entities to the United Nations. These ENGOs, with the help of citizens’ groups, are putting pressure on the government to take action in climate change and other environmental issues. Additionally, they use “symbolic politics” (images, media, and dramatization) to connect with the
When people say they have graduated college, I automatically think that they have all the answers to succeed in college. I assume that they have received the education they need to graduate and once I graduate, I will have the same knowledge as them. Then they start telling me their experiences and obstacles they faced, but did not regret it because they finished school for something that they were interested in. I then realize that college is a process and to pursue the education I want and need I must start by taking the courses I need and once I complete those courses I will have the education that I want and to complete that I need to find out what interests me the most. But first I need to do my research on what it is I would love to study. I need to understand the requirements for the type of position that I want to move into. Too many people think
The nemo dat rule literally meaning "no one [can] give what one does not have" is a legal rule in property law that states where goods are sold by a person who is not the owner thereof and who does not sell them under the authority or with the approval of the owner, the purchaser requires no better title to the goods than the seller had. This law states that if a bona fide purchaser who unknowingly purchases and subsequently sells stolen goods will, at common law, be held liable in trover for the full market value of those goods as of the date of conversion. Since the proper owner retains legal title, this is true even in a chain of successive bona fide purchasers (ie, the true owner can successfully sue the fifth bona fide purchaser in
But once they enter college and start to have expenses and try and see themselves 5-10 years in the future they get nervous. Chris Chipman, author of “Growing Pains: Becoming an Adult”, says that he has recently changed his major as well as tried looking into the future and see what and where he will be after college. This future vision tends to scare a lot of young adults. Chris states, “I really do not want to grow up and enter the world of monotony the adult world tends to consist of.” He has entered a time his life where decisions become very important and critical to his future, or as known as “The Path to Adulthood”.
The transition from high school to college is a dynamic time in one’s life that parallels the change from childhood to adulthood. Both of these changes are dramatic and, as a result, feelings are difficult to put down into words. A messy combination of emotions fills the heart, surfacing in strange ways. Confident high school seniors go right back to the bottom of the chain when entering college as freshmen. These students start all over, just like entering grade school or high school for the first time. The move up from high school to college signals the switch from dependence to self-sufficiency. From a personal point of view, going through the experience of graduating high school and transferring to a residential college campus at STLCOP, made me realize I was no longer a kid and capable of making my own decisions.
In the manifesto “ Success in 5 Easy Steps” by G. Richard Shell, there are perspectives that can be applied to the life of a college student on their path to success. Right off the bat Shell talks about how he didn’t even begin to start on his path to the career and lifestyle he has today until he was in his late thirties. This relates tremendously to the journey that most college students will take. He explains that you don’t have to have it all together and have an exact plan for success early in life. In college many kids go in thinking that they know exactly what they want to study and expect it to go exactly as they planned. This however is not the case for most people and some people think it is a sign of unsuccessfulness if they don’t
Many students see college as the stepping stone to a successful career and a happy life. Which can be true for some, however, many overlook whether college will actually help them succeed, or if college will truly be right for them. College is expensive and it is not for every kid who graduates high school, although it is marketed that way, high school graduates must think critically about their decision. Should I take some time away from school, to know myself better? What do I intend to do for a career? Am I more interested in educating myself toward things that interests me now and discovering my major as I learn, or do I feel I know what I want to do? And also essential questions like, how much debt will I go into? And can I
Nemo the movie is based off a clownfish named Nemo. Nemo is trying to find his dad after being separated in an ocean in Australia. Nemo was looking all over for his dad in the ocean. Now think of it this way. You tell me if you if you lost someone very important in your life wouldn't you not give up and continuing looking for your loved one.
After graduating high school, no one prepares you for college. Most kids when they are finished with high school don’t even fantasize about going back to school. I have always wanted to go to college ever since I was a young kid. I also had dreams of myself going to college, but in my dreams, everything was picture perfect. In reality, college has been very challenging for me. No one tells you about the adjustments and complications that you would have to face to become a successful college student.
Graduating and getting out on your own is a difficult step to make. There are a lot of things that you have to take into perspective. The choices that you make when you get out of highschool believe it or not are crucial and life altering. Decisions that you have to make are ones like what you want your career to be, where you want to live, and a big decision is buying a house. In making these decisions you have to do a lot of research and things to be prepared. I did a lot of research in hopes of finding a career that I would like and three things that I could see myself doing was owning my own spa ($100,000 yearly salary), managing a spa($60,000 yearly salary), or being an
All throughout school, students are ask what we want to be when we grow up. Many of us know or have a pretty good idea, but others have no clue what they want to pursue as a career in life, whether it be furthering their education at a university or attending a technical school. There are other students that plan to start work right out of high school. Either way we all have a plan, and the purpose of this paper is to inform you of mine. I personally struggle in making big decisions like deciding what to do with my life, but then I realized I have been asking myself the wrong questions. Instead of asking what I want to be when I grow up, I asked myself what do I want out of life? what are some of my goals that I wish to achieve? This led
I’m at the age now where every adult I meet insists on asking if I know what I want to do with my life. The answer is no. While college and careers may be closer than ever, I do not believe that grades should be prioritized over being an honest person, and I certainly do not think that integrity should ever be sacrificed for something far more trivial and, ultimately, insignificant as being accepted to a school with a five versus fifteen percent acceptance rate. I think, also, that not knowing is ok. The Ivy League to Goldman Sachs to marriage between the ages of 28 and 32 to the first child to a house with a low stone wall in the suburbs to the second child and maybe the third and possibly a lab and a cat along the way will not make everyone happy. I do not equate success with a list of achievements, and I refuse to let the name of a university on a t-shirt define me. I never want to introduce myself as a graduate of such-and-such school, because that is not who I am, and it’s not what’s important, either. I haven’t always felt this way, though. I imagine that many, somewhere along the way, at least once, are forced to reprioritize. I have felt this urge twice. The first was when I witnessed my first death, and the second was last year, at no specific time. In the span of my sophomore year of high school, I realized that I am not as clever as I seemed to myself during my formative adolescence. Nor am I better or worse than my classmates who get lower or higher