"What does a College Education Buy...."
How about you ask a college student? I am a junior in college, and I'm not going to lie...I am paying for college myself. A college education can buy so much, and the best "item" it can "buy" is a great opportunity for a great life. A college education can also buy so many life lessons which anyone can learn from and benefit from.
The one sentences that I feel hit a nerve with me what when Caldwell wrote...
"Maybe college cannot become much more accessible."
How can it not? Coming from someone that does not come from a wealthy family and can easily put their children through school without financial aid or loans I found it very accessible to go to school. I applied for financial aid and I also take out student loans that I will pay back myself. Also, how is it not accessible for students to go to a two-year school and receive a degree in something that only takes two years to receive. Yes, college is expensive, but not impossible. That is a benefit of going to college and earning a degree, you will be able to pay back your loans and such because you will have a job that you worked hard for. Everyone wants to do what they love for the rest of their lives then why not go ahead and do all you can for an education you deserve? It's not impossible.
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Ashley,
The theme I identified in your post was about independence, which is something (if nothing else) that I have learned in college. You are embodying this web 3.0 to a 'T'. You are taking control of your own education and not allowing anyone else to do it for you, which is very applaudable. I think about kids that I know that didn't attend college for whatever reason and they are still as dependent as they were in high school; nothing has changed for them. They still live at home, work the same dead end job they had since they were fifteen and have essentially made nothing of themselves and are just leeches to society. This sounds very condescending, but essentially it is the truth. So I thank you for being an inspiration to someone like myself, because it really puts things into perspective and reminds me why I am really here in school: it's not just for status, it's to make something of my life, cause the possibilities are endless.
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