Why does a student refer to choices s/he is making as if the student is a traveler in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?

The student is referring to choices s/he is making as if s/he is a traveler in the poem "The Road Not Taken", because the student is taking a path no one in his/her family takes before. The student can take the more traveled road of getting a job, but decides to take the less traveled road and go to college.