Pursuing A College Degree

When going for a degree at an institute of higher learning it is impossible to pinpoint the exact worth and value of the degree. If you base the value solely off of a monetary value, there are many factors you have to take into account: tuition cost, student debt, living expenses, misc. expenses, time, and your project income from your future job (if you are lucky enough to find or get one straight out of college.) This is also not factoring in the possibility of you going on to get a masters or Ph.D. There is also the school of thought that you go to college to become a more cultured and educated person in the arts then you did when you entered the college. The idea is people go to college to learn about the arts and sciences and should be
In High School, I was a star business. I took every business class Crown Point High School had to offer and place in the top five in the state of Indiana in the state of Indiana for the economics and accounting finance team. I came into college ego driven and deadest on becoming the next Wall Street hotshot. After a year in the School of Business and Economics and a major in Accounting and finance I decided that it was not for me. There was just too much math than I was willing to commit to and I do not have a mathematical mind as it is. I like statistical math, but the amount of math that they were requiring me to do was putting me in a full fledge nose dive (also I could not understand a single thing some of my economics professors were saying). After that setback, I decided to do some research and found political science to be compelling and decided to go with that field of study and become a DC lobbyist. So far I have been successful down this path. I am still driven by ego and searching for that pot of gold over the never-ending rainbow. My megalomaniac motives have not changed, but my outlook on the education system have. I believe that it is the job of high schools to create cookie cutter students that are "prepared" for college and it is the job of the college to create cookie cutter students that are "prepared" for the real world. That was my cynical view of the School of Business and Economics at least. My view of my now political science degree I am going for is more optimistic. While the business school you sit in class like a drone taking in information with no interaction with the professor in an unenthusiastic classroom atmosphere. In Political Science and in the rest of my liberal arts class we are encouraged to be engaged with the class. My classes are usually fueled with discussion from multiple viewpoints and the interaction professors actually, makes learning