Freewritting ensures that you remember all the information when it is time to put it all together
Estella is the main love interest.
Since you don't include "the following" benefits of college then one may surmise the benefits:
1) Increased education
2) increase in making personal connections that benefit ones ability to get a job
3) personal growth toward becoming independent ...
For starters.
One thought that is not a benefit is
1) having lots of free time to do what one wants to do.