The author repeats many times that going to college has almost become a fad or something that everybody does. It is thought in the United States today that if you do not go to college, then it is almost impossible to get a good job with today’s tough economy. Leading to her next small argument, Bird also puts in a good mark saying that there isn’t always something to do when students get out of college. Most students in the United States today claim to study what there is to do now, not what they want to do. Is that not what schools