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Thursday’s essay is called, "The lessons of college translate well into life." What are the lessons students learn from their college life? So many students today doubt the value of college because they don’t believe, first, that it has any practical value. Will it prepare me for a job? Second, time spent in college is time wasted when it comes to earning money, as far as they’re concerned. And the more time that it takes, the more money lost. Third, it is a lot of work, and they feel they have just put in a lot of work finishing high school, and they just can’t see putting up with a whole lot more of that “crap.”
The lessons of college translate well into life
by Richard L. Weaver II
Excerpt:
Students need to understand that if the point of life is to not just to run the race but to succeed, college helps teach them that what they sacrifice today, they will gain tomorrow. I know that for me college reinforced the importance of hard work, strengthened my ability to work as part of a team, underscored the value of playing by the rules, buttressed the role that rewards played in my life, encouraged my change in direction because of a teacher’s influence, and, in addition, deepened, enriched, and improved my ability to live beyond the college walls.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
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