College Degree

What is the point of getting a college degree?
A diploma?
Of graduating from college? Of being a college graduate?

Of EARNING a degree?

It is evidence of intelligence and responsibility
In order to earn a degree you must have some intelligence and you must be able to negotiate the system.
Not easy
The point of the degree is that you did something difficult over a sustained period of time.

The point is to earn a degree

to EARN it

Then other people you meet in the world, regardless of what sort of relationship you need, will know that you had what it took to earn a degree. That is all.

And it does make a difference where you get your degree.
How impressive is it to say you are a Harvard graduate?
Prestige is important.

Is it about what you learn in classes? Not exactly.
It is that you are capable of learning and of demonstrating proficiency in something.


And there is more

a bachelor's degree is often a requirement for another position, a job, a higher degree

so it is worth a lot
the college degree
the diploma
being a college graduate