Going To College Research Paper

When you see my dad you might think “that teddy bear stands up very straight” or “wow he must be mormon”. Well while he is a teddy bear, he just drives a big van with a heck ton of kids. My dad was in the air force for twenty years and went in as an officer with a bachelor's degree in psychology. As we sit in my crowded living room i ask him the question “at what point did you feel you reached maturity in college?” his response was “I don't think i ever really felt that way in college.” I just got a degree because that's what I'd always known was next and i never really considered anything other than just go to college get a degree and i ended up with a degree i couldn't really do anything with but i realized that too late. I was already close to finishing so i finished.

I also asked him “what was the biggest downside of going to college?” he told me that for him the biggest downside of going to college was that it was just a waste and he was too busy not focusing on school that he realized that too late and when i got my degree i wasn't really prepared to do anything. His degree just meant he was finished with his education and was ready to go out into the real world. He told me growing up all that i had been told and the only plan to succeed was highschool to college to job and there was no expression for the importance of jobs that don't need degrees like there is now. I was expected by my parents and by myself to go to college and nothing else no other options. I asked him why he chose his degree and he told me because one of the shows he liked growing up had a main character that was a psychologist and that he hadn't ever considered the fact that he could get a degree in something that he wouldn't need to go for another seven years for it to be