Is College Essential

Is College Essential? I chose not to take the college route. After highschool i wasn't sure what i wanted to pursue as my career. Apparently, I had a knack for acting. My salary was small unlike my sister who attended college and became a doctor. It is common sense that a doctor would have a higher paying salary than a fairly new actor. Although becoming a doctor sounds much safer financially than being an actor at the end of my acting career i was earning double my sisters salary. Does this mean i had twice the success as someone who attended college? Does college always guarantee that I will get a high paying job like my parents, who constantly hammer this idea into my head?
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The American dream has changed and reformed itself around graduating college in order to lead a simpler and easier life. The average college graduates studies hard for many years to earn themselves rejection letters from companies who cherish hands on experience and knowledge that only their older employees have acquired. As bills, student loans, and all other essential costs of living pile in the mailbox the student gets flushed into a world of debts, IOU favors, and a permanent bad credit score. So, one would try to find some help or answers on a reliable and easily accessible network, the internet. As you’re reading this, millions and even billions of people are reading, uploading, and searching across this vast network of information for anyone to research and apply in real life. For example if I suddenly started to support terrorism and wanted to make a bold public statement, I would search the web on how to make a giant feasible billboard or controlled bomb to show voice my opinion. Anything can be researched and learned from the internet, isn’t that scary? From Online college courses to simply learning to fry an egg, Everything is on there and it's easily accessible at a public library near you. Which begs the question, why do we go to college when so many before us were victimized and the few who live to tell the tall tale warn us? College does not guarantee that a person will succeed …show more content…
Anyone with simple access to the internet can learn to clean and cook a bass, or anyone can go online and be ministered as a temporary pastor in just fifteen minutes. One could potential save a wedding with this tool or build a small bomb to cause a giant massacre at a local town square. What a scary thought? If used correctly for the right purposes, this tool is one of human's greatest invention. The Internet is one of the most influential tools that has integrated into modern day society. We communicate, search, and learn. Some schools have stopped teaching cursive writing because writing in itself is outdated. In history, people would memorize and pass on the learnings of the ancestors to the next generation in folklore tales. This was the main way to pass along information. Then engravings on stone tablets replaced the memorization method. Paper was found from drawing on leaves and other parchments. Ink was later found and used as a writing utensil to paper. Books and scrolls were one of the best preservers of information for a long time but books can be erased, lost, or damaged. However, the internet holds digital copies which will always be permanent. In modern society, we can easily access this information on our phones or computers. So easily accessible that a particular renown and cherished professor and director at a lovely community college indirectly tells us that we, as the students who’ve paid dearly in time and money, are wasting