Going Away To College

The difference between an option and a decision is that an option is a thing that is or may be chosen; whereas a decision is a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration. While the two are similar in a various amount of ways, they are very different. For example, a college student that pays thousands of dollars to attend a specific college made the decision to sign up for that class, but that particular person has the option on whether or not to go. By attending the class, although not mandatory, exemplifies the qualities of independence and self-discipline. From a young age through teen years, kids mostly discuss the need for freedom: freedom from parents, freedom from rules, freedom from responsibility. College holds some …show more content…
College gives you the chance to make grown-up decisions about grown-up situations without a guardian being there to help every step of the way. Going away to college to get away from home is a topic discussed often amongst kids. High school is mandatory until a certain age, college is not. The amount of freedom a student will get when going off to college may be the sense behind the mind attending. Making the class involuntary will take out that fraction of kids that go for that particular reason. Not only is this taking money away from the college, but is not even giving the child a chance to get there and realize that life is coming in like a train and will continue to travel right on through with or without the presence of a human …show more content…
College students are no longer little children, now the young adult life has taken place. Now is the time to work, child labor does not exist because this is the adult life if a person wants to make a living for his or her family, working is the only option. A few attributes obtained when attending high school would be obedience and discipline. High school taught obedience by having a code of conduct every year, enforcing the rules, and abiding by the rules. Discipline was taught by having to go with whatever the teacher said and by having consequences for insubordination.College is the place to put all the things learned in high school to the test. By having mandatory attendance, class would be almost like highschool all over again. Someone would still be babying the next, pushing that particular person along, giving that person no room to grow and