College is the greatest place in the world for those who go for the right reasons. But, for those who go for the wrong reasons, college is a waste of time and money. Sometimes, I wonder why we are all in college or university. Being one of students of higher learning institution is such a must for everyone. So, "why are we all in university"? That seemed like an easy enough question to answer. A person may answer, "So we can get a job one day and find lots of money!" However, we all know that there are many people who never went to university and are rich beyond imagination. Just take Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al Bukhary as an example. He can even be a millionaire without going to university. Another student will answer "to get an education" Yet, we don't have necessarily to go to university to do that. Many people get their education through the school of hard knocks. Then, another person will say "to get a degree because we won't get it unless we go to university". Basically, there are so many answer to that question, depends on the person.
However, as for me, going to univesity gives us so much more than just an education. We can found some great friends in university and we also will have a whole new outlook in life and what we want to do with our life. Besides, we will soon discover who are we as a person and what we want to be as a person. We can also develop leadership skills and interpersonal communication skills which will be useful in society as we will meet so much people from different backgrounds. Indeed, the main reason we go to university is to learn to socialise.
When we graduate and enter the work field, we will be surrounded by generally like-minded people with roughly the same educational background and social status. The reality is that our world will be constrained by our career choices. If we are in the education field, the people we mingle with will be fellow teachers and school staffs. And if we are in banking, the people around us would have probably studied finance. College is the only time in our life when we are exposed to all kinds of people from all walks of life and from very different backgrounds. So, university is for different people to get together and interact. If we don't learn how to interact with myriad of people when we are young and carefree, how will we ever be able to do so when we enter the "real world" and have to cope with the challenges and insecurities of succeeding a career? But, we would have a better chance of broadening our network beyond what would normally be the case because we learn how to do so when we are young.
All in all, university is a once-in-a-life-time experience that will change our life.
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