Explain the main relationship between college success and happiness
- propose the questions: who is happier in the end: students who work hard at their academics throughout college or the students who “have fun” in college and focus more on college life? and does money essentially buy happiness?
- what is it exactly that makes people happy? friendship and love is ultimately what trumps money and status (Klein)
Why must life be determined by the outcome of college, when successfulness does not always deliver happiness?
- important topic because for students who are unsure of what to do or major in, it can help them make a decision with what is more important to them: being happy or having a lot of money
Establish the fact that happiness cannot be determined by a certain level of material comfort like money and how instead, it stems from having meaningful connections with other people and meaningful things to do
- Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs: these needs are being met so not much more income is needed in order for you to be happy
- when you focus on things like financial success, status, or attractiveness it will take away from your own well-being and happiness (Swift)
- for you to be happy, you should live a balanced life
The pursuit of financial success can also add to happiness as long as it is for the right reasons
- do something that makes you happy in life because money isn't everything (Swift)
- the "good life": the ideal life to live
- multiple things can contribute to the good life making you happy in the end (King/Napa)
Discuss why too much focus on the goal of financial success is likely to lead to lowered happiness
- Xiao/Tang/Shim
- by focusing solely on your academics and financial status you miss out on so many other things that living away at college can teach you (Moffatt)
- getting good grades can make you happy but not lead to overall life satisfaction
Explain how a lot of students only do enough schoolwork just so that they can get by
- some students need to switch to simpler majors so they have time to have fun in college and don't just spend all of their time studying
- Holland/Eisenhart
Gender determines people’s roles in society and also in shapes the work of colleges and universities
- "pathways to marginal careers" (Holland/Eisenhart)
- women are making conscious choices based on ideas about their future happiness
- most women seem to be falling into a reliance on men and marriage for economic support
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