College is a waste of time and money...

College costs too much. In order to make it out of college, you have to get student loans. Student loans can come back and kick you in the butt. After four years of college, those loans can really add up. Parents and students should really think about forcing or coercing their children to go to college. If an adult does not want to go to college, then he or she should not be forced too. When people graduate from high school, they are considered adults because they are the legal age of eighteen. The majority of college students are interested in two things only: having fun and being free. When they come to college, their free liberties are only free to a certain extent. They are limited in what they can actually do; especially if they are staying on campus. Unlike myself I live off campus in my own house. Most people, like Richard Baloga, do choose to stay in college because they want to get a degree and make something of themselves. They understand the importance and value of getting an education. The majority of parents think that if you go to college for four years, and go to graduate school for three years then they feel that you will make it in the world. They think that you will get a good job and never have to worry about anything again. Competition is out there. In this day and age, it’s not about what you know, but who you know.

Hardships of a Man

Scott Russell Sanders starts his essay off by talking to his friend about how he feels that women have a hard time deciding what to do. He feels that women have to do so much to catch up to what men did back in the early 1900's. He looks upon men as the stronger person in the husband and wife team. He remembered men going to fight wars and dying. He also remembered that men would work in factories. He said that the men would get up at dawn and work until dusk. You could tell by looking at them, just how hard they had been working. He says that as a boy, he feared growing up. He feels that men had a burden on them of taking care of everything, while the women went out shopping and socializing all day. When he went to college, he met girls whose fathers did not work hard like the men he knew growing up. These men were doctors and other professional working men. Their sons did not worry about growing up to become mill workers. He also talks about how the girls of the college he attended; felt that men had taken all the privileges of the world upon themselves. Sanders did not agree with this. He felt that what he saw when he was growing up was not a privilege, but a curse. He did not want to be one of those men. He says later on in his essay, that because he did not want to be like those men, he could not see how ‘a home could be a prison.’ He said that if he could have chosen back then, between mill work or keeping a baby, he would have chosen the baby. Even today, he says that he still would have chosen the baby.