I'm sure you know as well as I do that a college degree is essential in our generation and that without one you virtually cannot think about getting a good job or a real career. But did you ever stop to think how many classes we just coast by in? And how we don't know how we passed but glad we did? It seems pointless to waste thousands and thousands of dollars for merely a piece of paper.
It's funny to me how the classes most of us have to take, like the dreaded accounting and finance classes, we never actually use in real life (well except for the accounting and finance majors). Then there are the people who are human resource management majors, and the marketing majors who will rarely use that in their careers. Yet these are classes we have to take that are teaching us nothing about our majors.
Of course, college is beneficial for overall development, meeting new people and partying, but if you think about all the money we spend on professors lecturing us and giving us tests on things that don't really teach us anything about the "real" world it can really be overwhelming.
Before I got my internship, I thought the classes I was taking would help me figure out what I will need to do in real world situations and what I would need to do at a job — I was wrong. When I got my internship I realized this was the only way I was going to actually learn how to function and get experience in the real world. You learn you have so much more responsibility than what we knew as homework, and quizzes.
An internship gives a sense of professionalism and sense of adulthood you don't necessarily get from college, like being responsible for an actual company and work that could affect others peoples work.
Having an internship has opened up many doors for me. By having something to put on a resume that shows employers, you can handle certain stressful situations in the real world and also being able to explore what kind of work environment I want to be in or what field of work I want to be in. Being in the real-world workforce is a scary thing, but having experience before you graduate definitely makes going out on your own less frightening.
