Right from the start, the title of the article “Is college for everyone?” arouses immediate curiosity. Pharinet, author of the article and current instructor, explains the many reasons why attending college isn't for everyone. Although Phrinet is not as credible as one would like, she makes an exceptional argument. Be careful, an argument like this can change our opinions, as Pharient sits there tugging at our heart strings, playing with our minds and hitting us with consecutive facts. Throughout the article, Pharinet hits us with intense, emotion-filled sentences that make us question some. decisions we were able to make. Phrinet states, “Now college is where you go when you want to find a good job, or to appease your parents, or because you 'find yourself'” (681). This one line is so controversial. As a student watching this, they may think "I'm not going." Pharinet says one of her students said "C has degrees" (681) but she leaves us wondering if she is a professor college student, high school teacher, or maybe even a classroom teacher. school teacher. Phrinet never states where she attended college, but her career requires a college degree. So this begs the question: How can someone who has been to college try to persuade us that college isn't for everyone? Well, if we dig a little deeper, we'll see that Phrinet isn't clearly saying that college isn't for us, but rather that "there are too many students enrolled in school who don't fit in." simply have no place” (Pharinet 680). Personally, I've found myself looking at some of my peers and wondering "why are they here?" We've all done it at some point. It's quite simple; we need to stop pressuring people who are not college ready to go to college. As Pharinet says: “Accept the reality that college is not for