Author: DarielO

Being away from parents and responsible adults can cause stress and problems with their mental state. Students without stability from their parents can cause them to lose focus and be unstable. Being at a new place where nobody will help you unless you ask can be frightening. Also, the influence in college can cause stress and mental health problems in school. Being in school with and other students taking drugs and alcohol can influence more students to start taking drugs and alcohol. Yang, Chunjiang, Aobo Chen, and Yashuo Chen. “College Students’ Stress and Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Academic Workload, Separation from School, and Fears of Contagion.” PloS one 16.2 (2021): e0246676–e0246676. https://go-gale com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=cuny_nytc&id=GALE%7CA651393565&v=2.1&it=r The article shown explains how students being away from parents in college can affect the development and productivity, and when productivity is affected so is grades and efficiency. That then leads to problems with the school which then causes students to turn to more drugs and alcohol. “The third research stream emphasized the importance of psychological separation and attachment. According to this point of view, a balanced parent-child relationship between psychological separation and parental attachment is the best choice for students’ development [37,40]. Finally, a fourth research stream focuses on attachment to a group or group members in a campus environment and suggests that this attachment may influence students’ affective and behavioral outcomes [41].” Taking students away from their parents will affect their mental health and stress rate. Not allowing them to have the stability and security that come with parents will increase the amount of stress they have. Further in the article, the author explains how COVID-19 caused people to be at home all day giving them anxiety. Then students being away from their parents in a new environment made them even more anxious.

One of the main problems that I would like to revise in this paragraph is explaining the evidence better. When explaining the paragraph, I basically just rewrote points that I have been stating throughout the entire essay instead of better explaining the point of the evidence and the message the author is trying to portray. I also believe that when I said further in the article, I could have explained that part or at least given a better summary of what the author said.

A college education is becoming less important as the world continues to advance. The bare minimum in today’s day is a high school diploma, but 30 years ago graduating high school was a very big and beneficial thing. Having a college diploma is becoming a lot less meaningful to be successful.

A particular time in my life where I concluded that education was less meaningful was when I graduated high school. The main experience that showed this concern was when I decided to go to City Tech. when deciding to go to this school, I chose an associate in information technology. I chose this degree because of not knowing that IT and computer systems were the same. When my family found out that the degree, I chose was an associate’s, they kept pressuring me into changing schools or even doing a different degree than a bachelor’s or master’s even if the degree isn’t what I lie.

The education given to us students every year is becoming less and less important in today’s day. To prove this, I will be using evidence from CNBC. The article’s name is College grads earn 80% more—but only 51% of Americans see college as very important. This article explains how they made a Gallup poll in 2013 and in 2019. In 2013 70% of people said that college is very important, 23% said that college is fairly important and 6% said that college is not too important. When they asked people again in 2019 51% of people said it was very important, 36t% said it was fairly important and 13% said it was not too important. This change is very drastic since it’s only been 6 years and it was almost a 20% difference in people saying it was very important. Also, more than double the percent said college was not as important compared to 2013. This evidence is proof to the point that college is becoming less beneficial.

 

The experience that I had was very impactful to me because people of color weren’t in college as much before. To find out that just as the percentage of POC in college is rising the education benefits are dropping. Back in the day finding out your family member is going to college was a big achievement. Now today if your family member is going to college, it just feels normal. Like everyone goes to college and you’re not special. Education not being enough has gotten to a point where companies prefer people with experience to people with a degree.

 

School is very important and companies deciding that the effort you put into advancing your education simply isn’t enough for them isn’t good for everyone. Some people may be becoming millionaires, but the majorities are just regular people. Not everyone has years of experience in the career choice they want.