College
students are spending more time in college and feeling pressure to attain greater
degrees just to get a job.
College
students feel that they need to go to school longer to get the job they wish upon graduating, regardless of employers’ evaluation of applications for a
job opening, A University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse sophomore says, “my psych[ology] major isn’t going to get
me anywhere if I don’t go to graduate school, but that’s an extra three
years!”
Students
say they will need to go to school for an extra semester or even two semesters
to finish off their bachelor’s degree. “Super
seniors” complain not only about the extra time they must spend in school and
the money they are not making, but the money they must spend in order to get
them a job upon graduation.
“It feels like my
resume defines me as an employee instead of my interview and the characteristics
I would display in it,” says a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior as she
struggles to look for a job by May.
