This video is actually very pertinent to my topic for my Extended Inquiry Project, which is about declining value of the Bachelor's degree compared to the cost to get it.
While watching this video, one sign that a student was holding caught my eye in particular; it read: "My neighbor paid for class, but never comes." I found this interesting, because why would you pay so much money to go to school if you aren't even going to go to class? I've thought about this question a lot, and the answer that I've come up with is that class just isn't interesting or important enough. In college, most large classes don't really take attendance. And if it's a general education class you have to take, it probably doesn't interest you either. My question is, if I'm paying all this money for a piece of paper, why can't I learn what I want? I'm twenty years old and still taking math classes, yet I know I won't do any math in the future that can't be solved on a calculator. So why am I taking math? To make me a 'well-rounded student'? Wouldn't my time be better spent learning something pertaining to my major and inevitable career?
I felt strongly about this idea until I started to think about another: my future job could not even exist yet. If the job I'm having in the future might not exist, then it might be a job where I would need to know some Elementary Statistics...and if I need to know Elementary Statistics for my future job that doesn't even exist yet, then it's a good thing I'm taking it.
These two conflicting ideas really shook my brain up. I still believe in the idea that universities have begun to crank out more carbon-copy students that adults who actually know how to do the jobs they're applying for. I also now see how taking a variety of classes is beneficial, because you might actually end up using that Elementary Statistics in your currently non-existent future. So basically this video made me confused about my topic for my EIP, or at least it made me think about it in a different way.
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