Wrong Reasons for Going to College
A college education can be priceless.If any of these following factors had abig influence on your decision, you're probably right to second-guess yourself.
Because all your friends are going.
In only a few weeks' time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. Not to go will set yourself apart.Because someone else expects it from you.
Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college,or maybe you're the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first toget there.It's become so mucha part of the air you breathe that you've never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether you're ready to go.
It's beentough to find even a summer job. You don't have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it (see above). You think you might as well go to school. That isthe lamest（无说服力的）of reasons tospend $ 20,000 or more in the next year.
Because you are afraid you'll regret it if you don't go.
Your uncle tells you that he regrets that he didn't go tocollege. Others tell you they could have gone so much further in their career if only they had a college education. So this is not a persuasive reason for you togo to college.
a. A. Because you don't want to work.
b. Friends will wonder what's wrong with you.
c. Because you don't know what else to do.
d. Everyone seems more excited than you are.
e. It seems that for years everyone has just thought that ofcourse you'll go.
f. Whatever the story is, there are always people who regretdecisions they've made.
g. But maybe in your heart you know that you are going forthe wrong reasons.
