Why am I in College?

Most of the students who enter the college are aged between 16 and 18. Psychologically the mind during that age period is wandering wanting to know whatever it sees or attracted to by its sense. So there might not be clear or focused vision towards a goal the mind wishes to attain. Therefore many college students really may not have a proper motive for coming into the college. It is just that they do not what else they can do. Their family is the motivating factor.

There exists an emotional pressure to inherit traits, aim and ambition from their family. To top it there could be peer pressures too from friends, family and community. So the student is rarely left out to ponder on their vision of life and their career. So, the self needs to deliberate their ability and what the mind would love to do in a career in life. Then that thought would help the self to know how important it is to get educated and how it enhances its capabilities to generate appropriate inputs to deliver qualitative output to be successful in career which helps to be successful in life. When you get to know well the reason and purpose of being in college, then its successful outcomes would become clear to the mind.

The best way to arrive at an ideal conclusion, it would best to write down the features of the goal which you intend achieving in life. It gives a primary focus to the vision you have to attain the ambitions in life. This will re-affirm the reason you chose to be in college. Such a worthwhile exercise is good before opt to go to college or after having started going to college. This would enrich the vision to remain focused with a self confidence to educate well and hone the abilities. The sense of sharpness in the vision also helps to overcome hurdles which may come in realities of real life.

Making right decisions from time to time starting from the beginning is possible by staying well focused on the road map charted by idealistic and well planned way of approaches even when situations demand you to face predicaments of multiple choices to choose from. Options are bound to flood in once you are educated and graduated, which makes you understand, education is best mode to guaranteed success in life. When anxiety of life gets answers after education, its value and worthiness can be well understood. It also responds well to a question brewing in a mind which prompts a question often as to “Why am I, in College”?

Though lot of learning may not happen in the college campuses, even if it remains as absolute sources to get educated, the atmosphere to grow with help of education in the student community togetherness helps tomorrow in developing the community where one lives with education. In every avenue of community development programs, education can only help the progressive aspects. The project based learning in college with support of the mentors, is an experience when extending any service to the community which is bound to develop with such supports. Social network of friends and contacts developed is supporting factor too when consultations are needed to plan or implement community projects. College education has proven through statistics, that economic empowerment through higher education is positively showing higher earning possibilities.

The society also witnesses lower rate of unemployment, better economic growth, commercial and infrastructural development. So college education, providing a degree on successful completion is an earner which in turn helps to develop the society and the neighborhood. It also could amply support human well-being. The college environment additionally gives exposure to team spirit and leadership qualities which the society needs and gains from the education the self attains.