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.
HI Atlana,
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that you have made the decision to come to college. Before 2010, it was possible to make a living on only one person's income (e.g. th 1950s). A family of four could survive on the father's income even if it was a HS diploma. What has happened in this country since then is while the affluent class has grown (e.g. their money), the working class and/or middle class has not. While the rates of utilities, rent/mortgage payments have dramatically increased, it appears that the income these levels have received have not increased. This is why we see this shift between those below the poverty line, the working class, the middle class and the affluent.
Ms. C