Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

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Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

“Make a career out of your hobby and you wouldn’t have to work a single day.”

We have all heard this brief yet powerful saying. It implies that a person who can make a career out of his interests will enjoy his work so much, it won’t feel like work at all. University students at the brink of starting their careers often feel bewildered by the plethora of career options that they have in front of them. Should they pursue their passion or should they pursue that one field that is predicted to create a million jobs in the market in the coming couple of years? A lucrative career in a trending field, while feeling good in theory, has little chance of being satisfactory to the person concerned. Universities should, thus encourage students to pursue their interests rather than trending fields.

This recommendation can be substantiated by a variety of justifications. Firstly, the likelihood of success in a field of the student’s interest is way more than in a lucrative field. Since the latter is trending, it is bound to have greater competition. We never know how many of these competitors are actually pursuing this field as a passion. A student should thus be encouraged to follow a field he/she is good in. As has been said in Raju Hirani’s excellent film – 3 idiots, “One should chase excellence instead of success, and success will follow as a natural consequence”.

Secondly, encouraging students to follow their passion can only benefit the university since chances of these students of succeeding in their fields of passion would be pretty good. Many of such students might even become pioneers in their respective fields, and being alumnus of their universities, they would only strengthen their universities reputation as one of the best in the world.

Lastly, even if a student is coaxed into pursuing a trending field, it would require a substantial amount of investment both in terms of time and effort on the part of the student to make a career in said field. One must understand that having a career is not like having a 2 week internship at a startup. A person’s career becomes a very major part of his life which if not enjoyed, can become dull and tedious very quickly. Getting into a field is one thing, but surviving there is totally another, especially when the person does not enjoy working in the field.

A university should thus strive in honing its students’ passions rather than pushing them into fields that might feel lucrative at the moment. A student who pursues his passion is bound to succeed sooner or later. Even if he does not earn as much as he would have in a trending field of work, the satisfaction he would get in working in a field of his interest would be unparelled.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 374, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2314.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 475.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87157894737 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87950903787 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 693.9 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7572380527 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.19047619 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.619047619 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.21951772744 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28572345672 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971761147244 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713914604241 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16397488784 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412661184811 0.0667264976115 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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