It's Up to You
When you were younger and your
parents taught you right from wrong, correct? While saying this you also know
that you didn't always do what was right or what they taught you. Well college
is similar to that because it doesn't matter how much the professors teach you
or how much training you go through at the end of the day the real life
situations are going to be different. I think that
John Coleman had a couple of points
one of them being the question on whether or not things like leadership can be
taught. The blog by, John Coleman, in particular hit home for me because I am
majoring in the business under finance and I want to one day be a CFO so that
argument is legit on whether or not everyone can do something. Back to the
topic at hand, I think having an actual skill that is natural is far better
than being taught. To continue with things about how someone is raised I'm
going to say that I believe only certain things can be taught; for instance,
you can be taught to say yes ma'am and no ma'am but your parents can't teach
you how interact with their friends and how to be social. This means that there
are such things that need to be learned by experience and experience only.
I think that this illustration is what John
Coleman's example about Joey meant. See Joey had book sense and he was
confident in his degree but he didn't have the wisdom to listen to someone
else's advice and consider it. There is another point that can be proven too
which is people don't thrive as much when they are forced into doing something.
For instance, parents may give you advice, but most of the time it's a command;
I say that because everyone knows that their mother/father have a look and
those looks can make you reconsider whatever decision you were about to make.
Let me elaborate, you are a freshman coming to college, because that's what you
were expected to do; and you choose a major, that you don't necessarily want,
because you don't want to disappoint or let anyone down. Well lets just say
that you graduate with that degree you like it but your heart is not in it. If
at the end of the day you don't want to be in your profession then most likely
you won't learn and thrive in it. I'll Never Go Back to School is a story done in a blog and
it sums up what I've been trying to say in a nutshell. Experience can tromp
formal education any day that's why it takes more than getting a degree.
Ramesh Ponnuru's,
"The Case Against College Education", brings up a
question that has been debated over for a while now; which is, Should we help
more kids go to college? Or should we make it easier for people who didn't go
to college to make a living? That question is tricky but my answer to that is
that we should help those who want to go to college, whoever they shall be. The
latter question is a little more difficult because I agree with the fact that
if you went to college you should earn more; I think that life should be more
sustainable for those that didn't go to college. For instance, I think minimum
wage should have one more bump, making it at least $9/per hour; that is decent
for the average life. I have said before that I believe that an individual is
in control of his/hers own outcome so if someone who didn't go to college
wanted to make more they could all it takes is applying themselves.
Now, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with people that want to
please their parents but, in my opinion, someone who cannot stand up to their parents probably isn’t going to be a boss; everyone is not
meant to be a boss but sometimes just an employee. I think this is more or less
what
Mark David Milliron was trying to say in his article on his
blog about what he look for in students and what others want in theirs as well.
Me and him agree with a lot of points which is one ought to be able to stand up
for him/herself.
The illustration above shows the
meaning of my references earlier about how your parents raise you. If you are
raised to things from birth it is more instilled within you. It also shows that
after college it's time to decide the next move. Afterwards it's time to see
what that college degree is going to actually do for you.
The question,
Does College Matter After You Graduate? Asks some very
interesting and valuable questions that I think should be left open for
whomever to answer because again it's all up to you." In a world that's
growing ever flatter and more complex, we need societies full of capable leaders.”
says John Coleman. In saying that I totally agree be who you are whatever it
may be. When you do it do it well and at the end of the day you are doing you.
To add on to this, people usually don't tell you the positive
things that happen. When anyone looks at the news today all you see is stories
about killing, robbing, politics, and lies. No one ever hears about the
graduate student actually graduating and being rewarded with a decent job, even
though it happens. No one hears about how the park stays clean due to garbage men,
even though it happens. Or the assistant finally moving up and getting a better
job.
When saying this we have to realize that it's not always
good being negative. I'm a college student and there is a long list of people
before me that have come along and have done the same thing as I. While saying
that I also know that there were some success stories amongst the failures, but
no one ever hears about those because they are too busy trying to be negative
or just plain out listening to the news. The election is going on now and a lot
of topics have been bought up including jobs. Studies show that college
students of this generation are probably not going to be able to find jobs. I
think that is a wrong assumption, instead people should start framing things to
say that college students are going to have a hard time finding jobs because
we, as Americans, have hired people from foreign countries to come do jobs that
our people weren't qualified for. I say it's going to be hard because you are
going to have to fight for what is rightfully yours. If more students would
actually graduate and stop listening to the negatives they could target certain
jobs and make that job there’s. Why? Because the only excuse companies had from
the beginning is unqualified people, but you just changed that so that job
should be yours right after all you did earn it.
In the long run that could eventually make the United States
a stronger nation because we want have to rely on foreign workers who probably
contribute as less as possible to our economy. We already rely on them for
everything else, so we shouldn't have to rely on the people to.
Have you ever been made to read something? Well I read Share or Die and it's a book
that consists of essays about people and how they did or did not survive in
today's world and society. As I was reading I came across a specific essay; the
title of it was Unprepared by Sarah Idzik. In this essay there is a
girl/woman that has decided to go to college far away from home. Actually she
decided to move from Pennsylvania to Chicago, which was a huge jump. This
article drew me in because I didn't move to a whole other state but I am still
a long ways from home. A lot of the things that she referenced to like being
smart in high school applied to me in a way as well. We both had good grades,
but when she came to college it was a whole different experience because she
was a fish in a lake instead of a pond. I guess this made think about me and my
experience because just like her I had opportunity to go to colleges close to
home but just wanted something completely different. I am still learning how to
adapt and do things. The image above says it all. There is no way to make sure any one somebody becomes successful beause at the end of the day it depends on you.
