Why People Go
to College
by
Puspita Wening
College is the next educational place after senior high
school. Many people from different high schools, cities, family, and and even
countries come to the university with
different purposes. There are three purposes why people go to college,
that is, to learn particular study related to future job, to get a better job,
and to get scholarship.
The first purpose why people go to college is to learn
particular study related to the future job. In senior high school, people learn
science, such as Mathematics, Biology, Economics, or Language generally just
for preparing the final exam. Differ in university, people study the science
more specific because it concerns with their future job. For example, me myself
goes to college because I want to learn English more for I want to be an
English teacher. To be an English teacher, in college I study about English
language features particularly, such as Linguistics, Speaking, Listening,
Reading, and Writing which I had never got in senior high school. As well, I learn
about the techniques and methods of English teaching which are exclusively
taught only in English Department of Teacher Training Faculty. So, my aim goes to
college is to study English more deeply in order to be a professional English
teacher.
To learn particular study related to future job, of
course, is not only the purpose why people go to college; to get a better job
is another purpose, too. In this era, a better job means a high salary and a permanent
job, such as doctor, teacher, or lawyer. Some occupations having those things need
a high education, and college is one of the ways to get it. For example, my
friend who went college because she wanted to be a lawyer which she thought could
be a good job in the future. Before in
college, she was working as a labor in a electronic company only as a contract operator
because she only had senior high school certificate. Then, she thought that
becoming an operator was not enough for
her future life because there would not be a guarantee that her company would
employe her as long as she was alive. So, she decided to go to college to get a
better job, as a lawyer, through her education.
While some people go to college related to future job
purposes, there are some people who go to college in order to get scholarship. There
are many scholarship programs which can be got only if you are a college
student. Many of the scolarships come from government, such as Academic
Achievement Increase (PPA), Bidik Misi, or BUMN scholarship, beside the
scholarship come from private company, like Djarum scholarship. For example, my
senior in high school went to college because he wanted to get Bidik Misi.
Since he was in senior high school, he had collected the information about
Bidik Misi from conseling teachers in school or from his friends who had got
Bidik Misi. He studied really hard to get good score for each semester—because
Bidik Misi is a kind of scholarship uses raport scores from second grade until
the last grade in senior high school as the requirement. He also joined with a
learning course prepared for university’s test. Now, he is studying in
University of Lampung happily and seriously because he has got Bidik Misi
scholarship like he wanted.
In this manner, there are three purposes why some people
go to college, that is, to learn particular study related to future job, to get
a better job, and to get scholarship. From those purposes I get a point that
every people has different purposes which can be reached with the same
way, so we just have to keep going in
the right way to get the best result of our purpose.
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