Paper: Why go to college?

[kevinthenerd]

My sociology professor wants the class to write a paper on why we want to go to college. Some possible reaons might include a future job goal, parental influence, a desire to make something of ourselves, etc.

Specifically, I go for these reasons:
(in no particular order)

1. as a requirement for a future job
2. parental influence (expected of me)
3. peer influence
4. prestige (not a very good reason, I admit, but it exists all the same)
5. internal desire to learn (most significant)
6. to get skills necessary for a future job (different than 1, involves real learning rather than a paper degree)
7. to expand my horizons and enrich myself for a broader view
8. just to see what it's like


How the heck can I make a 600 word paper on such a simple question?

 

[Orsorum]

Look at it from the perspective of a 60 year old that never went to college.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Bill was a drop out

 

[spanky]

u go for the beer and babes

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
How the heck can I make a 600 word paper on such a simple question?

It's simple. Pick one reason, write 600 words.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: spanky
u go for the beer and babes

Beer ain't quick enough. I like vodka. :beer:

 

[burnedout]

Well, you could also expand upon #6. Include problem solving, critical inquiry, formulating and defending argument, reasoning, oral and written communication, etc.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
How the heck can I make a 600 word paper on such a simple question?

It's simple. Pick one reason, write 600 words.

...so how do I do it without a big steamy pile of BS?

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
How the heck can I make a 600 word paper on such a simple question?

It's simple. Pick one reason, write 600 words.

...so how do I do it without a big steamy pile of BS?

Wait, you're NOT going to BS it? Um...good luck...

 

[idNut]

John Carmack went to college then dropped out four weeks later.

 

[Indolent]

That's only about a page and a half double spaced. If you have trouble with this, you will really have trouble with college papers.

*edit* or is this a college paper? bs a paragraph about each of the points you have, that will easily get you there...

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: spanky
u go for the beer and babes

and sports.

 

[Yossarian]

600 words is nothing. That's like a page and a half right?

 

[Descartes]

I could write 600 words on describing the color green to a blind person, surely you can do this?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

You go to college to enlarge your world.

You ought to be able to draw from your own life experience and relate how you look at the world differently than when you were a child because of the act of learning, or being taught by someone, be it teacher or parent. Imagine and tell what it might be like otherwise.

You could write a book on that alone.

 

[Martin]

600 is absolutely nothing. Hell, for one of my first year courses it took me 1500 to describe what a (electric) drill was.

if it was 6000, maybe you could complain then..

 

[TrojanMan]

In my experience professors go for the original answer just as much as the well written one, so I'd go with the beer and babes.

 

[StormRider]

I heard there's a lot of hot looking young girls there. I also heard that once you start working it's hard to have a social life. Put two and two together, most go to college to get laid.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

To get laid.

 

[daclayman]

I have 96 credit hours but no Assoc. degree; I can't pass a 201 writing class because I can't 'fake' it. Take a lot of drugs, write down a whole lot of crap, rinse, repeat. After day 3 you should have enough crap to make up 600 words of why your prof should blow you.

:beer:

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: Indolent
That's only about a page and a half double spaced. If you have trouble with this, you will really have trouble with college papers.

*edit* or is this a college paper? bs a paragraph about each of the points you have, that will easily get you there...

It is a college paper. I've written several 10-page papers the night before they were due with no problems. They were on topics in which information is available: liberation theology, film morality, Greek philosophy, etc. This is an entirely different animal. I honestly don't have 600 words of reasons for why I'm going to college.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: TrojanMan
so I'd go with the ... babes.

says the Trojan Man

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I could write 600 words on describing the color green to a blind person, surely you can do this?

And, René, after writing 600 words, would the blind person be any wiser?


Edit: The fact that I understand your signature is sad considering I took Spanish in highschool, not Latin. It certainly does translate to a true statement when people don't understand it, though.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
You go to college to enlarge your world.

You ought to be able to draw from your own life experience and relate how you look at the world differently than when you were a child because of the act of learning, or being taught by someone, be it teacher or parent. Imagine and tell what it might be like otherwise.

You could write a book on that alone.

Thanks. That was certainly the most helpful suggestion. I just finished it, and it rocks.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

rofl 600 words?

My professors make us write more like 600 lines haha