Throughout high school, you are taught how to divide decimals and which their, they’re and there to use. Then you graduate, and if you do not go to college, you are expected to get a job. With the job, you are also expected to know how to live on your own, things they do not teach you in high school. You do not even learn these things in college, either. You are expected to know how to do everything on your own once you are done with high school or college.

If you end up going to college, you go to get a degree in a field you are usually passionate about. While college gives you the freedom of living on your own, you are not really living on your own. The college provides housing, for a hefty price, unless you decide to live off campus.

From living in dorms, that is about all you are going to experience with being on your own.

When it comes to knowing how to actually be self-sufficient after college, you do not learn much about it in high school or even college. All college really prepares you for is how to do well in the career you plan to go into. After college, you are expected to get a job and really live on your own. Students are never taught how to do things that are important to their lives after education, such as taxes, buying a house or filling out checks.

Some people are lucky and have their parents or other family members and friends to show them how to do these things, but not everyone is that lucky. For some people, school is all they have to get ahead in their life.

I think to really prepare students that are in college and preparing to live on their own, without their parents, we need to teach them real-life skills. While some campuses, and even Oswego State, have workshops to attend that would help a student learn these skills, they are optional. I think to make these workshops more helpful to a larger student body, there should be even more of them.

To help get students more interested into going to these workshops, it should be advertised more. They cannot be forced to go, but they should know these are skills that are crucial to life after college. Students should not just be prepared for just a career they are going to have. They also need to be prepared to comfortably live on their own and know how to do things that you should know how to do as an adult.