High Expectation Of College Life

College is considered by many to be the best times of their life. It’s the time when we start learning more about ourselves and try to live as independently from our parents as we can. However, I don’t think anyone would argue the fact that the most exciting moment in college is graduating. The ones who are especially anxious to do so are senior students, who in less than a few months from now will be receiving their diploma and be able to show the world their true potential by getting a job and accomplishing their goals. However, many graduate students, thrilled about going ahead, distorts their reality, and starts imagining all the great things they would be able to accomplish once they complete their education, raising their expectation

Throughout college, the average student spends from 4 to 6 years before obtaining their degree. During this time, they spent a lot of it studying for classes, which University of Florida graduate Kathy Pierre in the USAToday article How much do you study? Apparently 17 hours a week is the norm explains that the average time a student spends preparing for classes each week is around 17 hours. Preparation for classes includes homework, reading and any other assignments, which is the approximate equivalent of 147 complete days’ worth of study. They spent so much time studying because they want to obtain high grades, which would end up getting them high GPAs. They find having good GPA important because of how colleges required them to obtain a certain GPA to advance with their career, which normally would be a C, or 70% and above in a class. As college is considered the time where we learn about life and how it works, many students believe GPA to be as important as any other skill obtain in college. Considering the time and effort they put through those 4 to 6 years, you can see how this would lead students to think having high grades would improve their chances of obtaining a high paying job. On a research done by Senior Manager of Accenture Director David Y. Smith and Managing Director Katherine LeVelle titled 2016

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University Cal Newport in the Harvard Business Review article Solving Gen Y’s Passion Problem claims the phrase “follow your passion” to have become a pervasive career advice during the time recent college graduates were in their formative schooling years. He argues that while the general idea of the phrase is that you aim for a fulfilling working life, it has damaging implications that warped the mentality of students to think they should be able to love your work from the very first day. What students are not told, however, is the reality of developing passion for their jobs, which happens overtime during the years, not instantly. An example of this can be seeing in the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs speech at Stanford, where he encouraged students to “find what they love” and to “not settle” when looking for jobs. However, Steven Jobs himself, at the time of cofounding Apple, was more concerned over Philosophy issues, and didn’t have a passion for the company at all (Newport). Because of the passion dogma implanted in their minds as undergraduates or before, they were led to believe that if something goes wrong in the workplace, it probably means it’s not their passion and should abandon it right away, as it is not your dream