Does college really help you make more money in life?
A college graduate will make $1,000,000 than a high school graduate.This is a “fact” that shows up on Quora, your newspaper, blogs, etc. all the time. The College Board produces a report, Education Pays, every three years. Years ago the economist who produces this report published raw BLS data in an appendix. Someone at The College Board who didn’t understand statistics saw the raw data and put it up on the College Board website. It went viral.There was pushback from people who do understand statistics and The College Board took the information off their website, but it was too late. Intuitively it feels right, and now everyone believes it.It is not true. I’ve addressed this subject multiple times. Here is an abbreviated explanation:On the first day of Statistics 101 we are taught, “Correlation is not causation.” Smart people go to college. The economy rewards smart people.You pay for college with today’s dollars. The financial rewards, if any, are paid with future dollars.In the studies much of the data comes from people who graduated before the Great Recession of 2008. Our nation’s GDP for the last eight years mirrors The Great Depression, and wages are flat.The data is sometimes gathered by using surveys. Guess who is more likely to answer a survey. The guy with a $200,000 software engineering job? The guy who ended up working part time for Starbucks?Over half of recent grads earn $35,000 or less, and, on average, they lost five earning years to achieve their “munificent” salary.There’s more, but you get the drift.When the economist in question was interviewed on the subject, she, being well versed in statistics, remarked that a college education is probably worth about $400,000.Notes:James Altucher goes overboard in labeling college a scam, but he does a very nice job of explaining why the $1,000,000 is a myth.The College Board may be a non-profit, but they aren’t neutral on the subject of attending college. The more young people who attend college in the US, the more money the College Board makes.I did some volunteer work in a local high school that sends 65% of their graduates to college. I was doing some work for an Economics teacher. This subject came up in class. When I questioned the $1,000,000 figure he adamantly pushed back. I didn’t embarrass him in front of his class, but he, of course, had taken Statistics. I don’t know if he straightened this out later with his students or not.
I Hate College Life, Please Help?
I am a freshman this year, and I have been here about a month and I hate it! It has nothing to do with the academics, I actually am doing well in that area, it's the social part. I haven't made any friends and I feel so alone. I spend all my free time in my room, alone (this includes the weekends). I am naturally a shy person, but I have been trying to be more outgoing and meet people. I met two girls during the first week and hung out with them for a little bit, but eventually they stopped talking to me, and I don't know why. This school is a major party school, all anyone does is go out and get drunk. This is not really my thing. I will drink occasionally, but when I do I am far from wasted. No one I talk to seems to share these feelings with me, especially my roommate who doesn't like me because I don't have the same drinking habits as she does. I have tried everything I can think of. Leaving my door open (no one stops), making small talk when I'm in class or in line, talking to other people on my floor, and joining clubs that interest me, and no one wants to talk to me. I eat all my meals alone, well the ones that I actually eat considering I hate sitting there alone. And I don't know what to do!! I hate it here, but dropping out isn't an option. I would transfer, but half of the reason I am at this school is because it is so cheap it is the only one that I can afford since I have to pay for college myself. I can't keep doing this! It's making me miserable! I don't want to be sitting in my room alone all of the time, but I have no one to do anything with. Everyone says college is the best time of their life, but I hate it here. Please help me and give me any advice that you have.
What should one do to start his college life which helps him to get better job?
do whatever....but not engineering...engineering will spoil your life for sure..
College-life, major question?
You'll be able to enjoy the college experience with a major of nursing for the first two years. I say this because the first two years you are going to be taking the "basic" or "general" or prerequisite courses that are needed to take more advanced classes in your junior and senior year. If you have excellent time management skills, stay on top of your assignments, and complete them all in a timely manner, you should have no problem hanging out with friends, going to sports games, meeting new people and just loving life. One thing about college is that you often have a lot of down time between classes because you make the schedule that you want to follow. You might have a class at 9am on Monday morning and your next class is at 2:30 in the afternoon. Well that gives you a lot of time to hangout with friends, eat lunch with friends, do some homework and get ready for your next class. Other days you're going to be busy all day with all your classes back to back to back and have no time during the day to meet up and hang out. Most of the time the sporting events are on the weekends and if you have all your assignments done you can schedule time to go and watch a game. When you get into your junior and senior years of college for nursing you'll be taking your major classes and you'll be in the hospital doing clinical's from maybe (7am - 3pm) and then have classes that same day at maybe 5pm. This is where it gets tough and you'll have to really be selective on what you want to do with your schedule. The amount of free time that you have is now drastically reduce and your social life may not be what it once was, compared to the first two years of college. However, you can still plan events with friends and hang out, most likely this will be on the weekends. Blessings
How's college life treating you?
So long ago, can't remember. But it did double my income potential. (can sit at home and do nothing) Peace.
How much do Cubesat projects help and hinder your college life?
I am a student from China. Forgive me for my awful English. I joined a Cubesat team two years ago. The project is called QB50 which is part of FP7 of EU.Wherever you are, designing and launching a satellite is a great work. I knew nothing about it when I decided to join the team. However, it's so attractive to launch a satellite done by myself even it's that small. I gave up several courses to make enough time for it.During the project, I met many outstanding teammates from different fields. I learned how to design a satellite. I saw how CNC works. I experienced success and fail.It's boring to only study from textbooks in college(don't know if the same situation in your country). Sometimes, you should have passion for your dreams. Your major is EEE, so I think you can afford On-board Computer subsystem or Power subsystem. There is several renders of our cubesat: Lilacsat-1. It's cool,right?
Do friends really help after college life, or is it only the family that cares?
Family is always there for you, no matter what. But friends will help or not will totally depends on you. “What kind of person you are” will decide what type of friends you will have. Your selection of friends, will be on your behavior.You can be good or a bad person.At first, suppose you are a good person. Then you will have options of good and bad friends. Since you are a good person, everyone will take your help, the good ones will help you at times you need them, but the bad ones will walk away.Similarly, suppose you are a bad person. Then also you will have options of good and bad friends. Since you are a bad person you will not help others. So, both the good or bad will not appear voluntarily to help you. Bad one is already gone, you will have to ask to the good ones. They might help you but they will not volunteer themselves , because of your behavior.A good person will always have people which care for him. But the bad one is repellent.(A person cant be termed directly good or bad, it depends on situations. I have taken Good and bad, to explain a perspective.)In a lifetime, a person meets a lots of people. In schools and colleges, classmates and benchmates, in jobs… collegues, seniors, juniors, in society… neighbours, they all communicate to you, and reverse. But what makes them friends is the caring or helpfull nature towards you. So, from all of them, only few will have that connection with you. Some will be more caring, some will be little less helpful.. that depends on your behavour towards them. It is blunt to say directly that friendship is a give and take bussiness. But this business doesn't have records of no of helps, it just goes on without counting favours.If you have made such friends then they will help you otherwise not. Its that simple.
My parents do not want to help me pay for college?
If you don't qualify for financial aid that means your parents have enough to help you out. If they don't own a business to pass on to you or in some other way have prepared you for life above college, they owe you college help. I think scholarships only go to very gifted people and minorities. You will have to get loans and be an indentured servant to the banks like many.