so we all recognize them is Bill Gates
Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and I’m
sure the reason we recognize them is
because they’re some of the most
successful people in our society today
right yep
they all have one surprising thing in
common none of the graduating from
college okay yes granted they all got
into schools first two of them be
partnered but that’s the side point the
point is that these men who ended up
doing so well for themselves did so
about the college education that our day
and age puts so much emphasis on in fact
according to the National Center for
Educational statistics in 2007 there
were 18 point 2 million students
enrolled in college in all-time high per
our country so what does that mean for
people like me high school students who
have yet to enter the treacherous waters
that is the application process the
United States higher education system is
encontrado we’ll fill in any country now
we haven’t created an opportunity to
choose from so many different amazing
colleges and universities to pursue
essentially whatever I want and because
of this going to colleges the confidence
is expected almost every teenager it
wasn’t always this way they back to it
your parents or your grandparents were
in high school not everyone went to
college like the way they do today in
fact majority of the people who did
attend college were either male or had
parents which attended college before
undergraduate enrollment increased 47%
between the fall of 1970 in the fall of
1983 when I hit ten point eight million
and then from there increased 21%
between 1994 and 2004 in between 2004
and 2014 increased another 17% so in a
little under 40 years college enrollment
has doubled and its continued dress I
was visiting USC just a few months ago
and in the information section they for
me that they get fifty four thousand
applications here as photos an already
stressed out not thinking about me
create test scores and even better GPA I
don’t need they have take me with the
fact that 54,000 students were applying
to this amazing college but 50,000 of
them wouldn’t get it all of these
students are just hoping a acceptance
prestigious colleges of their dreams
but at what cost hi I’m Agustin hair
torn I’m going to talk to you today
about the power college what I’ve
learned that the theme for tech on says
here is going to be the power of I
immediately thought college being in the
midst of junior year which is commonly
referred to as and excuse my profanity
teachers hell year colleges the
forefront thing on my mind at basically
and the second of the school day so I
wasn’t surprised when the first thing I
could think of
I heard word power was college powers a
pretty complex word though is to find us
the ability to direct or influence the
behavior of others or a course of events
and I really can do this in two ways how
are we being controlling and domineering
or can be driving and motivating and I’m
going to talk about the power college in
terms of both of these first I’m going
to focus on the board controlling
connotation of the work just about every
aspect of a student’s high school career
it’s influenced by the constant
anticipation of a college application
booming in the future we spend for long
long years busting our butts staying up
into the late hours today writing papers
and working on projects for the one day
what a table full of college admissions
officers is going to sit down and judge
our character and our intelligence as it
comes across on a piece of paper people
who have never met us or experienced our
personalities are going to go on whether
or not we get to go give out our dream
that’s really scary
so naturally every student is going to
do all of their ability to portray
themselves as best they can for what
that day comes but that’s just thick
everyone is doing all that they can in
high school to prepare for college so it
seems like at this rate only way to get
into colleges to date every owners class
offered in three four a piece I’ll talk
about well yeah that sounds like a great
plan but it’s easier said than done and
as if chem extraneous wasn’t already a
tall enough order there’s a question I
heard seems to just love to ask guys
must do whatever extracurriculars and
his personally my least favorite
conversation AB as it normally seems
more like a generation what are you
gonna move in school what are you
getting how high school what service you
do
I often find myself asking if I thought
bilingual Olympic gold medalist who
created their own app do I have any
chance of getting in there and this
constant pressure start to put a real
strain of mental health professional
students adolescents are supposed to get
9 and 1/2 hours sleep each net which
Squidoo if you provide two or three of
us I can’t speak for other schools but I
know that and they said open all during
a particularly stressful time like the
week before break oh ho you will hear
anybody talking about is how stressed
there because they have five tests and
doing this they need to study for it two
papers they have to write on top of that
okay and I’m going bit me
definitely work ourselves up and
probably stress a little more than we
need to but we’re all just so focused on
the end game of getting into college and
it’s hard to just take a step back and
relax
we’re also caught up with memorizing
information because we must get an a on
every test in order to get into college
that often times we forget to just calm
down actually enjoy my learning
I was recently watching certain
references said talk do schools kill
creativity in the basis of it was the
issue that knowledge is valuable for
creativity he feels that the whole
system of public
education around the world he stays
around college acceptance in consequence
of this is that many highly talented
brilliant people only that they’re not
and in simplest terms his argument was
this what if you’re amazing at work but
at your school art is not that because
it’s more about creativity as opposed to
intelligence so you never realize your
potential because hey you were never
going to be an artist and he quickly had
me convinced I mean how often in our
society are people encouraged to pursue
stuff they’ve created a young age what
if you’re amazing at me and who knows
you could be the next Picasso but you
know what study not instead because one
of the time comes that’s what’s going to
get you into college who cares if you
actually like it and this really got me
thinking why do we do what we do to go
to college to get a job to make money is
this the path we have to date do we go
to college because it’s what is expected
of us I heard a quote by William Butler
Gates that really changed my tune about
my high school career education is amol
physicist education is not the filling
of a pail but the lighting fire clearly
the power college holds over some high
school has its negative effects but I
would consider myself a pretty positive
person I feel like this talk would it be
complete without also shedding light on
all the positive things that our
colleges which made it
the word power can mean energy that’s
produced and this is just what the power
of college is done for me it is ignited
within me a fire that’s pushing my
limits and help me realize my full
potential as students there are some
things we may start as resume builders
but that’s not necessarily a bad line
because it can lead to a passion we may
not have tried otherwise I know that
I’ve encountered driving force of
college my life there long as women
missed out on their high school Ted
being one of them we all need a little
motivation once in my home I definitely
needed a push to charge it but if you
couldn’t tell by me being up in pasta
years this becomes something I am
passionate about and if you can look
forward to every April when I get to
share my ears work with you guys the
power apologists empowering it motivates
me and keeps me excited too pushing
these high school days in the pressure
that comes with them because even in the
power of pressure there are things to be
gained in the midst of this seemingly
endless
junior year I have learned and grown so
much more than I ever thought possible
whenever it seems like I can’t hop to
any more I am constantly push to give my
all because the spark college excited
within me as I am going to talk today
about college and expectations I want to
make everybody especially my fellow high
school students with this quote by
Howard Thurman don’t ask what the world
needs ask what makes you come alive go
do it because what the world needs is
more people flow from life thank you