Joshua Byun April 12th, 2014 ENGH 122-AC2 Synthesis Draft #2 (Is College Worth It?

A lot of students who prepare to get into university wonder if college is worth it. There are some students do not concern about universities, so they look for the future right after high school. Colleges run as business, basically as school business. People pay for college institution, and colleges offer higher education for students, such as providing higher degrees to have a job place where students can enjoy their work. What a college does is to teach students how to manage their schedules efficiently in life. So that it benefits them to communicate with people in society, to think carefully and to take their responsibilities. A college provides students benefits through professors by giving them lessons of how to think, to organize and to analyze concepts of ideas of a given topic. Once students start to attend at a college, they will face burdens of work to do. Every college has their own rules, such as plagiarism and cheating are prohibited. Those can be included as one of educational system. These rules are somehow like a law people should follow in the society. They show an idea of a course of study that a student should not do because breaking rules in the society counts as illegal, meaning someone will get a penalty. In order to keep up their grades, they will need to learn how to manage their time precisely and to take responsibilities. Additionally, students schedules are all given at the specific time. Students scheduled times and days teach them how important they are. Otherwise, entering a room in the middle of class will make that student feel ashamed. However, students will not always find an arduous time from doing their work. From their colleges, their work can be enjoyable to do. An author of The Richness of Learning, Richard Cohen quotes College

taught me how to have fun with knowledge in May 27th, 2013. This quote proves a college is worth it by providing pleasure to its students. Students might find face their college life as facing a cliff-like life, but there is a result that brings them happiness that creates students open minded toward their goals. Without the happiness, no one can work efficiently. Otherwise, they will be locked in their depression and would not taste the color of joyfulness. You will find truth in the clich that money cannot buy happiness (by Richard Cohen in May 27th, 2013 in The Richness of Learning). A person can pay for the knowledge, but no one is able to buy happiness. After students pay their tuition for colleges, the colleges will provide higher education for them. In the first year, they would need to take different kinds of courses which are general studies to get basic knowledge of their disciplines. Colleges provide opportunities to make personal connections between students to share their ideas and to cooperate each other for their success. Even for their future lives, they might allow themselves to find their convenience lives. They can work in the same company as a group or there will be some times that they need some help from their friends. Thus, in colleges, professors give them group project to teach how significance a group work is. Then there is a result they get: being able to work efficiently with people in a group. In W. Kent Barnds article, Is College Worth it?, he stated Possession of these skills prepares graduates more effectively for a job. Recruitment messages emphasize that curriculum and learning outcomes focus on what matters most to students and to graduates in October 18th, 2013. This provides the fact to readers how colleges prepare students to have skills, so that they can work efficiently once they get a job. Then they bring up their plans, thoughts or ideas in order to obtain a better result, as successor. The higher education students get the more well-known company they would get into, such as, Apple, Sony or Samsung. In other words, once they achieve a high

degree, they would have a lot experienced and studied during their college life. Those people who have experienced and have a lot of knowledge of their certain degrees, the more possibilities, they would like to be employed and used in a company. Main Point 3: Future life of students There is a huge difference between an educated and an uneducated person. In other words, while educated people know how to process their work, uneducated people struggle with their work. If students have learned how to think and to take responsibilities properly from their colleges, they would know how to control their families by providing property for their families. Educated people have a degree to show and to be acknowledged from people, so that they can prove themselves as a hard-worker. Additionally, if a person is well-educated, the more possibilities that he can take care of his family. An author of Whats the value of a college degree? Turns out Education Improves Everything from Health to Marriage provides the evidence: The children of college-educated parents are also much less likely to grow up in poverty and much more likely to enroll and succeed in higher education. The reason that these children could grow up from a place that has well-educated system is their parents have already gotten a certain degree from their colleges and have ability to get hired from a company in order to earn money, so that they can take care of their family. Without education, parents might not be able to provide what is important in life to their children such as love, freedom and happiness. Colleges provide benefits to students based on their needs. Students with high education will have a higher possibility to succeed in their lives. College life is similar to following rules in the society. This gives students to live in a proper and in a more virtuous way. After students get a certain degree from a college, they will have found themselves as a dream-achiever from finishing a difficult life in college. There is always an advantage that

people get by putting a lot of effort into something they desire. They can have more opportunities to get hired from a company, and this can bring them to have better family life. Because once a person is hired in company where he would like to work in, he will earn money to take care of his family. Also, the more he educated, the more he will have an easy job due to his experience from his college, so the higher chance to take higher position in company such as becoming a manager of company. Colleges give a lot of opportunities for students success. A college is worth it to students to prove people that they have ability to work. A college might give students an enjoyable life by giving them knowledge to work efficiently. This knowledge would have earned from their professors and their academic studies.

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41419679_1/courses/13328.201410/Richness%20of%20Learning%20_Cohen%2C%20Washi ngton%20Post_.pdf Mack, J. (2012, January 23). What's the value of a college degree? turns out education improves everything from health to marriage. Retrieved from Michigan Live website: http://www.mlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/01/value_of_higher_education_exte.html