https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo Share your experiences that made you question higher education. en-us 2016-11-29 00:24:38 UTC 2025-11-08 05:44:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140389043 As a millennial, I was always told that I'd never have a job if I didn't go to college. Then I went to college and all I hear about it how people currently graduating can't find jobs. There aren't any jobs out there and I'm constantly trying to decide if I actually need to be here. Is this stress worth an empty promise of wealth when those proceeding me haven't been able to find that? I go to class everyday and try my hardest to make my parents proud. I went from being a straight A student who graduated at the top my class to barely making C's. I try a lot more now than I did in high school and I know that college is harder but it's more stressful than rewarding. I'm constantly on the edge about actually dropping out or sticking with it. I love the outdoors and would love to hike the Appalachian Trail but the track I'm on right now is going to make it hard to accomplish that dream. I want to be a literature professor in the future. I'm in college getting my Bachelor's for another two years, add on more schooling for my Master's, and even more for my doctorate and I'm never gonna have the time to do things I want before I NEED to join the workforce. But I know that if I take a year to do this, I won't come back. College is that stressful. I never believed it until I was actually experiencing it. And I don't think the older generation gets that. I don't think they ever will.]]> 2016-11-29 02:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140389043 wilhoitkc https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140390494 I was taking a history class required for my major at the time. We had exams every week and I usually made pretty bad grades even though I paid attention in class and read the textbook. One day I had enough and decided to try even harder. I was so confident I would make an A! I didn't even look up anything (they were online exams). I finished it and was really excited.....until I found out I actually made a C.]]> 2016-11-29 02:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140390494 https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140390849 Nuff said. But actually though group projects are the bane of my existence. You find them everyone in different levels of education but you hope maybe that they'll be better or less prevalent in college. Right? WRONG. Group projects are still very much a part of education at the collegiate level. Every self-reliant student who does their work on time and in their own way will no doubt be forced to "cooperate" with their peers in learning. It'd be amazing if more professors would adopt a strategy of allowing students to choose between group projects or working alone with adjusted requirements and standards depending on the number of students involved though this is unfortunately far more rare than the painful reality. Best thing to do is just suck it up and deal with it how you will. Some projects are smooth sailing with productive and communicative members and others...well...they're not quite as productive. But we just have to deal with it anyway. Any professor will claim that's it's simply a sample of life in the "real world". Whatever. It what it is and it be what it do. ]]> 2016-11-29 02:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/wilhoitkc/mfahdphbledo/wish/140390849