Underwritten by Tristan James Jr.
From the time you enter high school, college (and a four-year university in particular) is often presented as the end goal.
Once your junior year rolls around teachers, peers, and family members start throwing out a barrage of questions your way: are you looking at colleges yet? which ones have you visited? what’s your personal statement going to be about? what do you want to major in? when do you start applications? what about sororities? how about roommates? My head is spinning thinking about it.
“In 1636, European colonists (as the story usually goes) founded “New College,” now known as Harvard University.”
JULIA KRAMER
High school is a microclimate, making for a confusing experience, at the end of which you’re supposed to be “grown.” It acts as a small town, where everyone knows everything, news spreads like wildfire, and everyone is talking behind each other’s backs.
It’s a place where good influences and bad influences collide to form the person you will enter the “real world” as.
Back then, colleges were attended by wealthy Puritans who would inherit family business and go on to be leaders of the new world as proper, well educated Christians. So from the beginning, college was associated with greater success and wealth.
“I’m not here to deny that anyone with a college education will likely earn a significantly higher salary than those who don’t.”
INSIDERNOTES
But don’t worry it gets worse.
If you’re like me and genuinely interested in learning more about the world or god forbid making it a better place, be prepared to drown in debt, working a minimum wage job until you die (just kidding…sort of).
After I received my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara (not because it was “easy” but because I was passionate about the subject), it was not lost on me that my 40 thousand dollar degree would get me nowhere.
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