In the article, “College is a Waste of Time and Money,” Caroline Bird reveals to us that college is not a necessity for every high school graduate. With her target audience being students and parents, she presents to the many reasons why going to college became such a popular idea in the first place and still is today. One of the very first topics mentioned in the essay is that most of the 9 million Americans ic college say that they are only in college because it has become the common thing to do, ore more like, where Mother wanted them to be. Basically, any reason that is irrelevant to why college was created. She covers the origins of college and its original purpose along with the story of how college lost its true meaning and became
