The Assignment on Significance Of College

RUNNING HEAD: SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLEGE
SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLEGE
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLEGE1
Do you think that college should prepare you for life or career? Explain.
Whether the college should prepare a person for life or career will be discussed. College
can help a person to unlock career opportunities such as get a job, keep the job, and make
money. To become an independent person college can help you (Westover). College can guide a
person to explore the options. These are the positive aspects of college.
However, another perspective of college is after completing the graduation returning
home without getting a job. So it can be said that college is unable to prepare a career for the
student. Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, is even encouraging the students to drop out and
follow the idea of entrepreneurship instead of college. According to Peter Thiel, college is not
worth it. To analyse the worth of the college, six graduates from the class 2011 are interviewed.
By analysing the answer of the interview, the worth of college will be identified.
Among these interviewees, three persons believe that college is not worth the money. Life
or career of a person does not depend on the college. Sara Fletcher, the journalist, referred that
though helpful for a person to figure out the passion and gather skill yet the time and amount
students have to provide for these benefits are not justified (Dwyer). Leah Munson, the dentist,
referred that instead of the career, the college prepares the student for the society (Dwyer).
Ashwin Anandani, the Start-up guru, college is not worth of money as the student has to pay a
huge amount of money to learn how to prepare patterned documents and conduct standardized
tests. Alexis Valdex, the teacher, referred that college education is helpful for the student to
develop career and life by assuring a better future (Dwyer). Arnela Sulovic, the entrepreneur,
referred that college is worth of money. Life and career of a person can be improved by the
knowledge from the college. Student can learn new ideas and meet new people which can be