Looking Back !

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                      Over the semester I feel like my writing has improved greatly. I started off my earlier blog posts with blogs that were very hard to understand and very unorganized, but as the posts went on I found that the organization, thesis, and examples of my blogs were getting better.
          In my blog," Is All of this Just a Big Waste of Time ?", I felt like the thesis of this blog was very up front and got a readers attention. I started the post off by asking a lot of questions that would pull readers into my blog and actually make them interact or become interested in what they were reading. I used personal experiences about what I thought about college to give the reader a feel of what I have experienced already and examples of why I feel the way I do. I stated, " That students always hear about how great college is, and all of the things they have to do to actually get a college degree." College is actually a test of endurance; a way to see if you are actually fit for the whole lifestyle of school and working.
       Also in, " Is College Worth it ? ", I gave personal examples of the way college has effected my life as a whole. I talked about all of the things I have been through so far, and also all of the things my family has been through since I've been here. I used strong examples of why I think college is very much worth the experience. I started off the post by stating, " Do you want to make something of yourself ?", because it was a question that I ask myself all the time and most days that's what gets me through. College is great, I can't lie, but there's also a lot of work that goes into it and sometimes I question myself.
       In, " Why College ? ", I explained why I thought it was a good choice for me to decide to come to college. College wasn't something that I really wanted to do, but I knew it was something that I had to do. I stated in this post, " That after I saw the look on my Mother's face when I graduated high school it was a "no-brainer" that I was going to come to college". My main focus then was just to make my mother proud of the things I was doing because I was her first child to graduate high school. I think these personal examples gave the reader a sense of who I really was, and many of them could relate.

 

 

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Is College Worth it ? Revised

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       Do you want to make something of yourself ? Sometimes I find myself asking this exact question. Although, college is very expensive and things always don't work out, I belive that if a person is a the right college for them, it will make enjoying college and college work a little bit easier. College gives its students a chance to step out and explore things that they may want to do in the future.

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   Ask yourself is college worth it to you ? Many of the people that answer that question will say no. When thinking about college many people just think about what you have to do to get through it. I see it as think more about what you will get out of it in the long run. People should think about things like, " where will I be in ten years ?" In " Value of College Beyond Paycheck", it states that college is " not just learning things to make a living, but also learning things to enable you to do things with your life, to enable you to find interests and pursuits that may in some way or another expand the way we see things".
    Succeeding in college is up to you. The way you handle the experience is what will truely benefit you in the long run. During your college experience, if all you think about is the bad things that will happen, or the thoughts of maybe not having a job after you finish than your experience may not be the best. You make the decision about if college is worth it or not and you determine that. You have a clear path that you have set for yourself, set the goals that you want to follow and achieve them. In, "Why we Have College", Louis Maynard states, "College is, essentially, a four-year intelligence test. Students have to demonstrate intellectual ability over time and across a range of subjects. If they’re sloppy or inflexible or obnoxious—no matter how smart they might be in the I.Q. sense—those negatives will get picked up in their grades. As an added service, college also sorts people according to aptitude."
    If you weren't the best student in high school, like me then college is a new way of proving yourself,  by making better decisions and just trying to succeed overall. In, " The Education Our Economy Needs", the author the author talks about how many people feel that memorization is more important than good critical thinking and good communication skills when it comes to job applicants, but as the author stated, “ A candidate who demonstrates capabilities in critical thinking, creative problem solving and communication has a far greater chance of being employed today than his or her counterpart without these skills”. That basically means if you take the time and effort to better yourself in certain skills then you have a better chance of succeeding after college.

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    Also in, "Don't Miss The College Forest For the Career Trees", Bobby Fong explains "College can't serve you well without challenging you to integrate information and skills in ways you haven't before, and to apply the results to problems that may not yield clear and simple answers." I feel as though I always have to push myself to complete things, like assignments. I want to see can I really go through with this independent life. To prove to myself that I am capable of making it. I do this just to see if I made the right decision to go to college, or if I'm at the college I want to be at.
      I believe that yes college is worth the experience if you make it worth it. People have to stay positive and try to explore new things that will help them further themselves, or help them to stand out from the rest; like trying to overcome the things that they may have trouble with like writing, math, or even history.

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