Picking a college has been hard for me, because I'm going to be an upcoming junior and it's not on the top of my mind right now. I already know what kind of school I want to go to. I want it to be a SEC team, because I love college football and I want it not to far from home. For me college isn't fully about making a living. It's furthering my education and what I do with that will decide if I'm going to make a living. As Charles Murray says, "College is seen as the open sesame to a good job" which I don't believe in, because it doesn't matter if you have a college education if you didn't learn anything. I also think college is about growing up. You enter college barely legal and you leave being twenty-two or older. You mature a lot, so you're going to become a different person. I would go college no matter what, because of the experience. It's worth being a kid for four more years to get a college education. Also going to college makes you more money Owen and Sawhill's article, Should Everyone Go To College, confirms," 23 to 25 year olds with bachelor's degrees make $12,000 more than the average high school graduates, but by age 50, the gap grows to $46,500." Just in that statement alone that makes me want to go to college, because a piece of paper can pretty much make you $50,000 more by the age you're about to retire.