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After beginning my research and going through a decent amount of, but not all of, the sources I intend on using in my research paper, I have now accumulated a substantial amount of information on my research topic. Conventional wisdom has it that a college education is beneficial in many ways, such as personal development and financial boosts. This, as it turns out, is very accurate. According to "The College Experience Opened Me", the process and end result of obtaining a college degree opens oneself up to the real world and allows one to better perceive reality. It also gives the confidence required to be unique and entrepreneurial in one's endeavors. Similarly, Alan Seeger, in his poem "With a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving College", maintains that the benefits of college extent past the immediate future after leaving and the first job that one attains. His poem demonstrates that at any time in one's life, one may draw upon the positive experience of college and use it to both inspire and remember the past. The benefits also exist in more tangible, measurable forms. According to "Effects of Postsecondary Education on Family Well-Being", the benefits of college extent to nearly all aspects of a person's life. It brings a better well-being, mental health, and education for future generations to name a few of the benefits, and the list goes on. People feel much more comfortable having a college degree and the higher standard of life that it brings, and this translates to positive externalities in all other aspects of a person's life. Additionally, the article shows that by meeting people in college and entering into certain, higher up, social circles, a person has many more opportunities. These opportunities often translate into higher-paying jobs and more job security since a person can contact one of the people in his social circle, which often have positions as managers, and can ask for employment whereas someone else would have to stressfully begin the job search with no aid. However, this source does mention one of the potentially negative results of obtaining a college degree, which involved debt and loans. People often do not do enough research and instead only pay for college with loans and debt, not properly thinking of a financial plan to utilize. This, often due to ignorance and laziness, can burden people with debt for their life, but this can also be prevented by responsible use of credit and money. The article "Positive Effects of College Degrees" corroborates many of the aforementioned article's sentiments, adding that a college degree increases personal and job satisfaction as graduates feel more empowered and are able to move more freely up the ladder in their chosen fields. Therefore, through my research thus far, I have learned a lot about the effects of a college education. While they do appear to be mainly positive, there are some negative ones, so my paper will not be entirely one-sided as I previously feared.

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