Villasenor's Short Story

Back in middle school, there was a speaker in my class who asked us to raise our hands if we were planning to go to college. I remembered clearly that I didn 't even raised a finger. Over the years, my aspect of attending college has changed. At first, I thought the idea of me going to college is just pointless. My life plan at that moment was to work as soon as I 'm done with high school and live a happy, simple life. Besides that, I was either in school or studying for classes half of my life already, why more years of reading textbooks, taking tests, and doing homework? The only difference is you get to pay for going to college instead of free public school. Now, instead of seeing it that way, I see it as a way to open up more opportunities and preparing for the future. In today 's modern world, there 's competition every …show more content…
I am glad that I have the same kind of father he had to be there for me. When I first read the part of Villasenor 's father, the first person that comes to my mind is my dad. My dad never went to college because first, he 's not in a wealthy family and second, many people back then didn 't have to go to college in order to have a decent job. Even though my father didn 't have any kind of degreed in college, he 'll still read and watch documentaries whenever he have time because he thinks that the better education you get, more choices of life you 'll get. He has the same idea as Villasenor 's father when he said, " 'People didn 't read back then, but they do today, and so to get the respect and to reach the audience I do believe that you want to reach, the best way- '" My family always wanted me to go to college because they 've notice the change in our society and realized the cruel side of the world. They think that having higher education is the only way to be the ruler of our own