Essay On Paying For College

Ever since I have been able to I have had a job. That means all throughout high school, and now in college, I have worked as well as attend school. Getting out of school and going to work has become a natural part of my day, and it has been since I turned sixteen. I got the opportunity to go on a week long trip to Europe with my world history class, this is why I started working, I got my first job in order to save for the trip. “Traveling to a new country or place is the best way to get back to productivity and creativity (Agrawal).” After I went, I thought maybe I would not continue working, and go back to focusing solely on school. That was not the case. I had come to realize how much I enjoyed working, and how I did not want to give it up. I knew that keeping a job as well as going to school could affect my grades, or my social life. It was a bit of a concern to me as well as my family, but the extra money and the experience was something that was important to me to have. Obviously, being employed while in school would have some effect on my GPA, but could it be for the better? Paying for college is a struggle for …show more content…
Writer Brandon Lang reviewed multiple studies to see that studies sometimes show different results. The results being that students who are employed while in school would see a negative drop in grade, but in other studies it proves that students who are employed would see not change in grades (Lang). There were many different reasons behind why some studies showed lower scores and others did not. Whether the sample studied were first-year students or senior is one reason, others include employment of male or female students, on-campus or off-campus work, and the relationship between employment and race (Lang). Lang did not mention the amount of hours a student worked a week, but this is also a big reason why the results are