change of opinion?

I set out on this paper with an opinion that I wasn’t really sure whether or not I believed, but that I stated because with this sort of a paper you need a definitive opinion. I think in the course of writing the paper I convinced myself of the opinion which I half-way believed at the start. I think that the main purpose of college is in fact to set a person up for their future career. This is partly because I realized that personal growth (another common argument for going to college) will probably happen in the college age-range whether or not one attends college. Also, I found some good statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau about salaries of people who go to college versus those who don’t, and how much money these different groups earn on average.