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Why are we at college?

Why are you here?  College isn't necessary to be successful.  You can learn anywhere.  What do you hope to accomplish?  Let’s be honest with ourselves and put something on the table immediately. The entire point of going to college is to make ourselves look better on paper. We take classes in which we don’t give full effort to learn information we will forget. The one thing we are paying all this money for is a single line on our resume that says Bachelor’s Degree in whatever the hell our 18-year-old selves decided. Every student here is looking for one thing: a career. Biology majors are looking to become doctors, engineering majors are looking to create an invention, English majors are looking to be famous writers, and art majors are looking to be working at McDonalds. That last one is a joke, but you get the point. Even if we learn nothing from our time here, the most important thing we walk away with is the ability to tell our future employer that we have a ...