Discussion and Thoughts About College

I wanted to further discuss some of the things we spoke about in regards to the idea that millennials wouldn't go to university if a degree wasn't offered. I agree that it might be a very controversial(?) point of view, in the sense that it is based off of the assumption that millennials wouldn't wish to learn if it did not benefit them. While that is true in some cases, it disregards the fact that many people learn to expand their minds and enhance their skills. However, because of the way the world has become, people have to want to benefit from what they do, especially when they pay large sums of money to do it. There are other factors like employment to worry about. In an ideal world, we would learn and do what we are passionate about for the rest of our lives for nothing but the joy of doing it. But in today's reality: people get an education to get a job, they get a job to earn money, and it goes on.

Personally, I like school. I enjoy learning more about things I am interested in. I like being able to understand things and figure out how things work. Yes, it would be great if I got a degree and a job because of it, but I would be okay to learn about things as a hobby too (minus the tuition, I hope). However, I have to admit that I do not always feel like this. I, too, am merely a teenage student; I have my weekends, where I procrastinate everything and do not feel the most accomplished about it, wake up minutes before morning classes and only go because I feel obliged to. But for the most part (I swear), I do it because I choose to. I openly say this because I know most, if not all, of you relate to this as people who are often in the same position.