Why did you decide to come to college?

I decided to come to college because no body in my family has made that a complishment. College has always been important to me because I get the chance to experience different things in life like people from other places then I, different cultures, college basketball and football, living on campus, and most of all higher education. My gradparents have always stressed the fact that if you don’t go to college you wont have a good job in the future. Now I don’t nessesarly agree with this assuption, but I do feel that this is the picture that society has painted and wants us as citizens to believe.  But regaurdless of the fact, I feel that I trully want to get a better education then the one I received in high school. I do feel that it is important to be educated in the world. Being educated to me shows that you go against the odds and push thru to better your self. No matter if its for your family, or yourself, or your future. We never know what the future will bring. I’ve heard claims that your going to have to have a college degree to work at mcdonalds, and that’s just in 2010. Imagine whats next to come. In the future you might need a degree to be an housekeeper or a janitor. All in all we don’t know what the future might bring and honestly Im prepared to save one of those job offerings for my self.

"Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood"

In Botstein’s  Essay “Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood” he feels that high school is pointless and that they should be grouped together in class. He feels that they should cut out middle school and students should go striaght from elementry to high school. I personally feel that middle school was designed for a reason. I feel that as Children going in to different stages in our life we need to be grouped with students going thru the same thing. I would never want my daughter in the first grade to be in the same building as male students that are in the 8^th grade. The grade system is fine just the way it is. I actually think that high school should be extended  I feel that a lot of students still have not reached maturity at the age of 17 and 18. I don’t feel like at the age of 16 you are ready to go to college. College is a very stressful ordeal and to have all that stress at such a young age could really damage a person. I don’t think that students that’s are 16 should be grouped with students that are in there 20’s. At the age of 16 I don’t think would have been mentally ready to see all the things I saw at 18.  I feel that taking it slow is the best thing to do. Let your mind marenate on the things you have been taught, and then go  from there. Don’t rush into to growing up.