Why should I stay in College?

anon94785555
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:22:35 +0000

You are the immature one. It sounds like you have too high an opinion of yourself. Finish out the semester with the best grades you can so you don’t have a poor college record limiting your future choices. You don’t seem to have a love of learning, something required to enjoy and do well in college. Those general courses could be interesting if you wanted to increase your fund of knowledge. You don’t need to worry about any of the other students, you choose your path. If you do well enough you could probably sign up for the courses others who want to learn do.

A college degree doesn’t limit you to jobs requiring one but not having one excludes you from competition for those that do. College is for an education, learning. It is a privilege to be able to delay the need to support yourself in a job and take on full adult responsibilities. There is plenty of time for young adults to work- decades of it. This is a time for being only responsible for yourself, as the other students have discovered. They are enjoying the freedoms of this stage of life. It doesn’t matter if college students aren’t as responsible as military recruits after training, those who go straight to work or learn only a trade (tech schools often have general ed requirements as well- they are not only for learning a specic job skill- some likely at a slower pace and more boring for you). By the time you are all 30 the college students you consider immature now will most likely be far ahead of the others.

Do take the time off next semester if you can’t get excited about your second semester. “Downgrading” to a CC or tech school probably won’t be any more enjoyable or be with more mature students. Be prepared to join the workforce at a job commensurate with your HS diploma. A college friend knew her summer job at her hometown plastics factory one summer was more than enough incentive to continue with college, even those courses than were a chore.