Confusion
Why should we have to go to school? Why should we have to get the diploma? Can’t we get a good job without the diploma? Compare to other universities, our university is stricter than the others. For instance, the teachers in Nan-tai University call the rolls almost every class; the credit hours we have to get are more than the other universities, too. Sometimes I think that we may be more disciplinal and pay more attention to our studies, but sometimes I feel too tried to give up my study. I feel helpless about the future and I am not sure I can get the better life and job if I reach the degree. Should I keep going? The future really confused me so much.
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"Compared to"
You don't need "than the others" here. It's a necessary phrase if your sentence begins with "Our university is stricter", which is also a comparative statement.
"call the roll" is better as "{take/check} attendance".
I don't understand what this sentence wants to say: "Sometimes I think that we may be more disciplinal and pay more attention to our studies". While "disciplinal" is an English word, you aren't using it correctly. It's not used very frequently, so I suspect that you found it in one of those infernal electronic dictionaries (including the Yahoo! online dictionary) that I have said are no good for Chinese-to-English translation. You must find examples of how native speakers use that word before you use it, simply because it's a word you've never used or even seen before. I've probably never seen it before either. Here are two examples I found in a document from the government of the Philippines: "The use of language transcends disciplinal boundaries. Cross disciplinal metaphorization is fundamental not only in defining the extra-territoriality of ..." Given these two examples, I'd say that this is a word you don't want to use.
I don't understand what this means either: "but sometimes I feel too tried to give up my study". Do you mean that you sometimes feel so tired (not "tried") that that you want to quit school? That's not what it says.
Another English verb tense problem: "The future really confused me so much." This is impossible in English unless you've already visited the future and seen yourself being confused by it. Perhaps, however, this means only that you don't care enough about what you write to bother proofreading it. I suspect that this is true because you haven't posted a blog entry for the past two weeks -- since October 9. You'd better get down to business (= start writing and posting your blog entries every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) or you will fail yourself in this class.
As to your final question, there is no one who can answer your question but yourself. There is no reason to go to school other than an economic one. If you want to compete with other Taiwanese for jobs that require a BA degree, the answer is "Yes, you should continue studying at Nantai and do whatever you have to to get that degree". If you are brave enough, and talented enough, to believe that you have what it takes to make it on your own without a college degree -- and lots of people do -- then the answer is "No, you shouldn't continue wasting your life and your parents' money by going to this or any other school".
The third answer is that you might just be too young an naive to be a college student right now. Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to take a one-year leave of absence from Nantai, get yourself the kind of job you think you might want, and then see if you are happy doing that and happy with your prospects in life without a BA degree. Not everyone should go to college, especially people who don't know what college is for.
I can honestly say that I think I would have been a lot happier if I had not gone to college right out of high school. I had no idea what I was doing there. Most of my friends knew exactly why they were going to college and they also knew exactly where they wanted to go. I couldn't explain why I was in college without saying "Well, everyone else I know is going to college" -- a stupid reason -- or why I was going to the university I was attending -- "It's a good school and my mother wanted me to study here because on of her friends who polishes floors for local businesses graduated from this school", another stupid reason.
Had I not gone to that college, my life would have been different, but so what? However your life turns out, you have to make the best of it. It's what you've got to work with.
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