It has been a long time since doing this and I'm not really sure why. It's really therapeutic to be able to write down your thoughts. Especially when you are pissed off about something, which seems to be quite often with me these days. I find it much more helpful to yell at my computer screen than other people (I usually keep more friends that way). With that said, I'm just going to dive right into this...
Why is everyone more or less forced to go to college by society? It really bothers me. In our "information age" its all but impossible to get a well paying job without a college education. So many people waste four years of their life being miserable while studying something they hate. Then they graduate and never end up using their degree anyways.
Jobs have become so specialized in the past few years that most companies you work for will teach you everything you need to know anyways. So why do we need a diploma? Is it just some sort of self gratification to have a piece of paper on your wall that says you slept through four years of classes? For some I would say yes. Others don't really have a choice. If people don't have a college degree most places you go to work will laugh in your face. The next guy that comes in to apply for the job may be an idiot, but he has a college degree so he's hired. Does this moron use his college degree? Hardly, the people that hired them will get them into a training program to teach them what they need to know. Apparently now we need classes to teach people how to sit in front of a computer screen for hours and want to shoot themselves and everyone around them.
Take my father for example-not that he is stupid by any means, he is actually quite smart-he has a college degree and has probably never used it in his job. My dad has a degree in science, biology I believe, and yet he works for IBM. You might ask, does he work in a lab or something along those lines? Good guess, but no. He is a manager for an account IBM has with a Canadian bank. He facilitates conversation between both companies and makes sure the bank is happy. I would love to know what science class my dad learned these skills in.
Now I know that college is important for many people and I'm not saying anyone should not go to college. I just have problems when we make generalizations for all of society-in that everyone needs to go to college. The fact is, some people just were not meant to go to college, but they feel forced. That is what I dislike. However, I know this will never change. So we must get through these four years as painlessly as possible, and hope that in the end we absorbed something from those 8am Western Civ classes.
Peace and love.
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