Opinion: College is about more than getting a high-paying job | The Niner Times

Why are you going to college? Some form of the same conventional wisdom undoubtedly rattled through your mind at that question: "Go to college, get a good job, live a better life." This logic is the first in a 15-item list of reasons to attend college, according to the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

But the pursuit of greater heights on the economic and social ladder we climb is becoming less true for graduates. It has long failed to contain the existential sustenance it promises. In its wake, we might want to consider the possibility that higher education is about something more than a trade-off of our time for a guarantee of a high-paying job.