Week Eleven Post One

While reading chapter eighteen I really enjoyed the section on the effects of college. Usually contemporary students attend college primarily to secure better jobs and to learn specific skills. The secondary goal is to gain general education. I can definitely relate to this, school is honestly not the place I want to be I’d rather be working and starting a family but I know without a college degree it is hard to go anywhere in life. A study done in 2007 within the United States shows that the average annual income of fulltime workers with a BA degree was $73,000 compared to the people with only high school diplomas that made $36,000.  Going to college is definitely nothing but beneficial. More than half of all U.S. students take out loans in order to pay for college, and about 80 percent are employed while that is students because they have a lot of concerns about their debts and economic future. Although college is beneficial, it is beyond stressful. College tuition is very expensive, and a huge weight on your shoulders, I am always wondering how I’m going to be able to pay my loans back therefore I work two jobs as I attend school. College is known to provide better health for students. College graduates tend to smoke less, eat better, exercise more, and live longer. They are also more likely to be spouses, homeowners and parents of healthy children. This information only inspires me to make the best of my college career. College is beneficial in many ways and no matter how hard it is you just have to fight through the hard times.