subject: A Few Words about Student Life, Education, and Work in College [print this page] A Few Words about Student Life, Education, and Work in College
There are many different ways of how you may improve your student life and enjoy the time spent in college/university. You can go to parties, meet new people, develop relations, and learn more and more captivating material. However, there is one serious aspect of education that has to be evaluated from the very beginning: whether you are going to work while studying and what kind of work is better to choose.
Why do students want to work?
As a rule, each student has his/her own reasons to start working, but still the most widespread are:
A desire to become an independent person;
The necessity to prove personal skills and abilities;
A chance to improve knowledge gained;
A possibility to pay for education;
An opportunity to earn for living and enjoy this student life.
What should students be ready for?
If you still cannot decide whether you should work during education, you are welcome to rely on the following ideas:
- Money presence makes you an independent and confident student, but the necessity to spend much time at work deprives you of free time;
- Personal satisfaction because of the idea that you can do something, but constant exhaustion may become quite a disappointing factor;
- Communication with new people who know a lot about the sphere of business you choose, but it is still hard for you to find the necessary approach to every person.
It is wrong to say that working students destroy their lives, but it is still difficult to believe that student work is only a positive concept. This is why much should depend on personal knowledge and wishes: if you want to start working earlier, you are free to choose, and if you want to remain a young and dependent student, you still have this chance.
