Persuasive Essay About Going Into College

Going into college everyone expects us to know what we want to do with the rest of our life. That is a huge decision to make after living only 18 years. As teenagers we can’t decide what we want to where the next day, how are we supposed to choose what we will do for the rest of our lives? With the average cost of college ranging between $8,500 for a four-year public college and $29,000 for a four-year private college per year. (College Board) Can college students afford to make the wrong decision? Shocking facts reveal that around 75 percent students will switch majors from the time they start college till their graduation day.( Freedman) This just adds more money on to the two words no one wants to hear, “Student loans.” When we finally get to graduation the excitement is short-lived with the way the economy is going now. A college degree may not be enough to land a job that will pay the bills and 6 months later we start to get the bills for that degree.

Entering into college, I thought I had everything figured out. I guess you can say I got a rude awakening. First thing I learned is that high school did nothing to prepare us for college. Attending the first class I was blindsided by the amount of work expected and how much was taught in

Even later in our lives we will continue to learn new things about the way we work and learn. After taking the Holland Code quiz in class and again on-line I have learned that I am an ESC. These letters stand for Enterprising, Social, and Conventional. When looking at the map I fall on the left side and my first category Enterprising includes my future career. Social my second category includes a lot of things I enjoy doing and the conventional my final category has many skills that I need to succeed in my career path. Learning about my personality helped my reassure myself about the major I