How far should one study

HOW FAR SHOULD ONE STUDY?
Gone are the breezy days where even getting into an undergraduate programme in a college was considered to be a ‘prestigious’ feat and the most far fetched dream for somebody who actually wanted to have a complete, holistic experience of education. But jump a couple of years later and you will find almost everybody in an undergraduate course in some university or the other; it is not even a big deal anymore, at all. Even going to a postgraduate school isn’t an excellent feat in education, the closest that probably comes to achieving it is having a PhD. degree but we all know that the sheer number of people in those places are also actually true.

So what’s changed and how appropriate is it all really?
We shouldn’t just look into the trends in education to trace what really has changed. The numbers have gone through the roof; the acceptance percentages, the people who normally attend college, their grades. What we need to observe is the trends in the basic functioning of India post liberalisation in 1991. The population in India has forever been increasing and since there are far too many people in the chase of one medicine, it is going to become a hard sell and that is what happened to the colleges in India. The cutoffs of Delhi University are forever unreal and so are the number of people trying to apply in the college. There was a boom in the field of education and necessary so; our country couldn’t compete with it’s still nascent resources.
But in 2019, the resources have reached out to gaping lengths. The resources and infrastructure are fairly competent and the education industry is booming. Now the part where you understand that is where you start calculating what level of education is mandatory for you. The times we live in are practical. So let me just boil it down for you:-
Don’t think about college, think about the bigger picture
The most vital mistake students today make is they start thinking forward, what their college would be, what their course would be and what it would lead them to become. I think it leads to multiple possibilities than just be what you want to do. Once you have pointed what you really want to do and what you really want to become, you can work your way backwards. This bottom up approach give you a lot of clarity of what you should and what you should or should not do. Whether it’s necessary for you to go beyond the traditional graduate degree or if you even need to attend college at all.
If one has to join the army, you’d have to attend NDA or IMA, you’d have to/ or not have to attend an undergraduate college and you would have to take science in class XI and XII. It creates a singular clear chain.

Think about necessities first and temptations second
Sure, having a degree from one of the best schools in the country is a lucrative opportunity if presented to you but do you know if you ‘need’ it? Taking the example again of being a member of the army, that is your firm objective but would studying politics at a central university help you become a better one? The motivations to attend that college programme are probably coming from the temptations of acquiring ‘prestige’ and it could lead you to an entirely different path and hence deviate you from your objective.
These are nothing but mild formulas that will help you achieve a clearer picture about your career graph in the head, however no funda is ever enough and you really should look deep within yourself and find the answers to those questions.



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