These days, not going to college is almost a taboo. It seems like everyone's going to school for anything they can get, since these days, it's also almost impossible to get into work without a degree. So we'll see students working with jobs, working without jobs, working online, working on campus, and working for what seems like forever. As the years have gone on it has also taken longer to graduate from college. It's impressive if you graduate within the typical four years, though people often take even longer. However, there are a few who managed to enter college with a lot of credit already, and have the actual possibility of graduating in an impressive three years.
On the bright side of being a three year college graduate, you're free from the education system a lot faster. Additionally, you'll have less money that you'll have to end up paying, since you've got one less year of tuition, one less year of housing, one less year of books, and one less year of meal plans. It's not all fun and games though.
When you've got less years until graduation, you have to cram a lot more into those years. You have to pop in a few summer classes, and sometimes overload your schedules in a semester. Besides the fact that you have to do great in the academics and take a lot of them and coordinate your schedule so you can get everything in, you also have to get all your experience in those years as you'll want to get into your job field after you graduate. You have less years and less summers to do your volunteer work and internships, so you need to do a lot of things at once. You have to find bits of time in your academic schedule for work and other types of experience. You tend to have less of a social life and less free time when you're a three year graduate, since you need to do a lot of things in a short span of time.
Often you'll find yourself studying or working while you watch your college friends go out and party. People try to plan things with you, but you don't usually have a space in your schedule to do anything but homework and apply for yet another internship. In fact, you're lucky if you have an actual paying job, since most of your time is spent stacking your resume. Who has time for anything but career field experience and classes when you've only got three years until you're out in the real world?
So even though the world has made it harder and harder to get out of college in a timely fashion and even to not go to college, sometimes you'll have a faster time with it. It's busy and hard, but it's worth it in the long run.
