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Originally Posted by weluvpa
FOR THE MOST part college students don't work........Especially at Da U. I knew 4 kids that worked while in school and I worked PT at ski shops and during the summers at the shore and with my dad.
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What really irritates me is that at least in my major the ones with the highest GPAs are also those who either don't work or work very few hours at a laid-back on-campus job just for some "beer money." Why? They have plenty of spare time to congregate for group study sessions, fine-tune PowerPoint presentations, do extra credit assignments, attend lectures/seminars, etc. while those of us who WORK 30-40 hours per week try to split our precious free time between doing whatever homework or studying we can and trying to maintain SOME semblance of a social life. I'll be graduating in a few months and still feel as if I did NOT have the "college experience." While all of my non-working friends partied and had plenty of free time (while driving BMWs and other newer sedans just to add insult to injury to the rest of we "peons") people like me missed out on so much. Now I worry that I'm facing a more difficult time landing a position at a firm because these companies may look more favorably upon the person with the 3.95 GPA who didn't work (or barely worked) over the person (like me) with the 3.5 GPA who worked himself to death to help ease the burden on my aging parents. If I were an employer I'd select the industrious individual with the not-so-hot GPA over the egghead with the free time in order to hone those skills to the best of the ability. It's just not fair otherwise, especially when on top of all of this you're trying to keep up with school activities AND a long-distance relationship!
Does college EVER pay off?! Most of my relatively upscale subdivision is inhabited by people without degrees anyways. It just seems like I've wasted these past four years of my life. My liberal arts education has taught me to extrapolate upon my curiosities and be critical of everything in my environment, and my King's College education has provided me with a VERY strong ethical and moral framework to which I shall align myself in the professional workforce, but by and large I just feel as if I got "cheated" out of the "college experience" while so many around me from New Jersey tooled around in their BMWs, partied all the time, experimented sexually and with drugs and alcohol, etc. Then those of us who try to "do the right thing" get screwed in the end. GRRRR!!!
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