I wrote this for my journalism class which was an opinion piece.Last weeks class we talked about it’s not completely how much you know but what you do with how much you know is the real difference. Here is my paper
Headline: College Not For Everyone
Deck: Entry, Administration, Completion & Withdrawing
By: David Nudelman
Some people want money, others want easy money and everyone wants lots of money. Its seems that kids coming out of high know everything they want to grow up to be or still want to live like it’s still high school. College can be a great experience, give you a degree helping moving you up the ladder in society or can just be a complete waste of time.
College can help lead young adults to find positions they have wanted since their elementary days or to positions they never knew they would have. College offers majors where undergraduates study the subject they seek knowledge to become specialized, well educated and masters of their craft.
Funny thing about degrees are sometimes the wrong people have them. Imagine taking four years plus in college majoring in communications then comes the time where you have to make that powerpoint presentation of a new ad and you curl up in your seat. Could it because you never took a public speaking class as a requisite, you’re nervous or you’re not the right person for the job?
As we grow up we start things to see our friends get positions at jobs because their aunt’s cousin went out with the boss. It becomes more of what you know and who you know as opposed to just where you go and what you know.
Some of today’s most successful adults are college dropouts, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Kayne West, etc. These adults left college because they have the right idea and knew where they wanted to go and how to get there.
College can mold your brain, teach you the required courses but it’s our every day experiences that help us into the young men and women of the future. College provides us both with information and hands on knowledge to take our careers and goals to the next level. If you’re not willing to use it what you learned after acquiring it relies solely on that individual.
I feel we I learn the most when I am inspired as opposed to being filled with knowledge. Once you are inspired not only does your brain develop but your heart and soul does as well. I think that if students can find inspiration from the things they learn instead of just compiling knowledge the success ratio would be higher and productivity amongst young adults would triple.
Growing up near tons of college kids and some dropouts, I have witnessed that inspiration drawn from money, ideas, other successful adults, businesses, arts and all types of media have been their reasoning for doing what they do. It was just partially what they learned.
College will help you learn how to work, teach you how to work hard and maybe even help you even get work, but it will not work for you unless you let it.
Sidebar – Rhyme
I’m not educated so I guess I’m a jerk
And I had no clue that the round was earth
School is cool but it’s all what you learn
With your skills determine how much you earn
How can you work not knowing what your time is worth?
But now you work on your PC with Windows
While Bill Gates just sits at home and works
You can base the things you do, over things you learn
But take a second and to make sure it’s worth
All the time and effort you spent in it cause
You can reverse your life but not your birthCollege is not for everyone report
