The Best and The Worst..it's on

   Alright so college seems to be creeping around the corner. Stress, testing, homework, high school,  books. It's the most exciting and the most scary thing thats probably going to happen to us, if we choose to go. Either way, back to point.  On the "Room For Debate", they talk about colleges, and the myths and the what to knows about getting in. And under the topic of "Does It matter Where You Go", I choose

What You Do vs. Where You Go by Martha (Marty) O'Connell. Her views about college are exactly how I see it. I mean when going to college, it's about how you apply yourself in the setting given to you. When you go to a college like Stanford or Dartmouth, everyone sees the name. But if you can't apply yourself, and you sit in your office all day picking you toenails and eating your nasal mucus, wouldn't you rather hire someone from a smaller college who has the exact same education and will actually do the job? My point here is that a big name has a false image. And going to a smaller college that fits what you want and will give you the same education for less  take advantage of it! Also people say that bigger colleges push their students harder. That's not always the case. Students in Stanford are pushed harder by professors. But if you're an adult and it takes a teacher to STILL give you the feeding hand to work harder, it looks sad. People who go to smaller colleges, but actually push them selves to strive for the best, their the one you actually want. So don't look at the outer or the name. It's like you give your self a brand when you say your from an elite college. What difference does it make when you best friend studied at the University Of Florida, and you did it at Davis, and you paid $40,000 for tuition, but she did for $20,000 and you both recieved the same level of education. It's just a waste of you money. Like Martha states "The key to success in college and beyond has more to do with what students do with their time during college than where they choose to attend." Therefore in those simple words she's saying how hard you study and work will make you the better person and get the better job.

 Now for the con of the debate. I think this explination for college had  the weakest effect. 

Merit and Race by Luis Fuentes-Rohwer was the worst advice.  For this one, he explains the most obvious problems and issues within colleges. Everyone knows these basic things he's saying. We know that unkind people are in fact very racist and don't like black jobs. I find this horrible to know that we live in America  and the last words of the anthem is "...with liberty and justice for all". This is utter B.S because people won't accept blacks, mexicans for their race and we call that justice? Including the fact that when he states"  Applying for college should be a process about finding the right fit between applicant and institution. " Ok he can tell me that most people know that by now. The mass amount of humans on earth know this before their 8 years old. What a redundant fact. I don't like the information he gave. It was a waste of time reading it because I knew about this before he probably typed it.