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College or No College―That Is the Question上不上大学？这是个问题 　　2014年，美国约有70%以上的大学生是负债毕业的，被称为“史上负债最多的一届学生”。预计，2015年美国大学毕业生的负债水平会比2014年更高。毕业时的高额债务，不景气的就业前景，让人不禁怀疑：上大学真的是最理想的选择吗？请看文章。 　　Talking About College Education 　　谈谈大学教育 　　上大学不仅是年轻人的梦想，同时也寄托了父母的期望。有母亲哪怕付出一切也要让孩子上大学，也有来自贫困山区的大学生为了不辜负村民为自己筹集的学费，夜以继日地学习以求获得好成绩。近几年，国内的大学每年会招收四五百万名新生入学，全国每年有24%的高中毕业生进人大学。但是今天我们讨论的并非如何提高高考升学率，让更多年轻人实现上大学的梦想。相反，我想从另外一个角度谈谈大学教育。 　　To go to college has been a dream not only for young people but，if not more so，a dream for their parents.There are wrenching stories about how mothers would sacrifice everything for their children for a college education，and there are also stories about young college students from poverty stricken mountainous areas studying day and night to achieve good grades so as not to disappoint the villagers who contributed to his college tuition. 　　Now，colleges are more accessible than they were be-fore.In recent years，Chinese colleges have been admitting anywhere from 4 to 5 million freshmen a year，while，in the United States，there are an estimated 18 million freshmen enrolled in colleges annually.An overall 24 percent of high school graduates in China and a little more than 62 percent of high school graduates in the US go on to get a college de-gree each year.We can，nevertheless，still talk about how to improve the college-going ratio so that all young people who want to go to college can fulfill that dream.But，we are not going to do that today.Instead，ld like to chat about college 　　education from a different angle-Is a college degree worth it anymore？ 　　Does Graduation Equal to Unemployment？ 　　毕业等于失业？ 　　目前，美国有一个关于上大学的意义的热烈讨论。美国经济仍不见好转，对于许多大学生来说，毕业就意味着失业。这不是陈词滥调，而是当今数百万大学毕业生不得不面对的残酷现实。在大学勤奋学习了四年之后，经过很多考试，写过很多论文，为了按时完成项目熬过那么多不眠之夜，获得对口工作的机会却依然非常渺茫。2013年，美国只有42%的应届大学毕业生在半年之内找到了工作，其中绝大多数的年薪低于25000美元。其余的应届大学毕业生中，有40%多待业在家，50%多依靠父母生活，就是我们俗称的“啃老族”。 　　Currently， there is a heated discussion in this country on the meaning of going to college.With the economy dragging its