Educated People Within Our Society Term Paper

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Doubtlessly, it is a competition, but it takes place on a playing field so skewed that the pride one feels for achievement should not surpass the humility felt for the knowledge that fate managed to be so kind.

As a result, with my arrival at college, I have a further obligation to exploit the resources that are available to me. College is not an all expense paid trip to partyland -- however much to the contrary it may seem at times -- it is the one brief chance we have to gain skills and knowledge useful to society and those around us. If I were to behave as if this were not the case, then I would be misusing and violating the trust afforded me by those willing to invest in my education. By being fortunate enough to now be in college, it would be to betray all of the forces that landed me here, if I to squander the brief time I have been given.

Finally, college is not merely about degrees.

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I cringe every time I hear a fellow student tell me that "C'c get degrees"; people have even told me that "D's get degrees," but I have a harder time believing that one. Of course it is possible to get degrees in college and not actually learn anything; it is possible to cheat on tests and papers and assignments; it is also possible to do only the bear minimum to graduate. Professors often tell you that if you do such things you are only cheating yourself, but that is really only part of what you are doing. Broadly, you are abusing the system that has seen fit to place you in a privileged social position -- however unevenly done. So to me, my path through college will be an attempt to maximize the fortune that I have received; not just so I can enter the job market fruitfully, but so that I can cultivate the full expanses of my mind and give what little I have to those who….....

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