College

I'm finally done with my Jrn 200 out-of-class paper so I can blog now yay!!!!!!

If no one has ever told you, I'll be the first to say it; college is rough. Really rough. Everyone says they love college and its so much fun and it was the best 4/5/10 years of their life. What they really mean is they enjoyed the experiences, the partying, the crazy fun times. However, that only constitutes for about 1/3 of college. The other 2/3 is mainly class, and nobody likes that part.

Whoever decided to charge children & their parents thousands of dollars for an education needs to be shot in the mouth. Let's be real, especially those of us who went to public school: is it really worth those thousands of dollars? If an education is invaluable, why am I still paying for it 10 years after I graduate? Is my ISS class really that much better because I paid $372 a credit hour for it? I think not.

If the government truly wants us to be good, self-sustaining, productive members of society, they need to find some way to make education affordable, ASAP. Not all of us are rolling in dough, and once your actually in college scholarships are hard as hell to find. For instance, even with my tuition being paid by one of my scholarships, I still had to take out 3 loans to pay my room and board. Between freshman and sophomore year, financial aid took away all of my grants and claimed my tuition scholarship used up all my grant money. You know what I say to stuff like that? BULLCRAP.

Who designed this system? Why can I only get x-amount of money before they start handing me loan applications? I'm going to school full-time and working for the university at least 20 hours every week and I can't get some type of break? This is MADNESS! WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS! I really hope I get a fabulous job when I graduate cause I'm going to be dead in the water otherwise...

What's the Big Deal?

I just want to know what's corporate America's deal? Why must I dress in these uncomfortable clothes to do this job? Does it make my work performance any better? Is my report any more stellar because I wore pumps instead of sneakers? I think not.

I don't care how rich or powerful corporate America is; it's time for reform. I truly don't think its a bad idea to let your employees wear clean, neat jeans and t-shirts to work. I want my workers to be productive; their usually productive when their comfortable.

Cost is also a big thing, Do people realize how much a good button-up shirt or wool skirt cost? Am I even getting paid enough to buy a weeks worth of outfits? I don't think I am. Clothes like that come with special washing directions that ACTUALLY need to be followed correctly; just ask Gene Kelly what happened to his wool suit when he sang in the rain...

Plus, when your a woman, they always have something to say: "Ma'am it's come to our attention that you're extremely sexy and it is distracting your fellow coworkers from doing their job. If you could tone down your sex appeal it would be a great asset to company productivity; thank you." You know what I say to that? "Take your company productivity and shove it somewhere; you people don't do jack squat as it is. I worked hard for my body and I bet we would get more work done than ever if I came to work stark naked."

Tattoos and piercings are another thing. I mean its totally inappropriate to come to work with your face looking like a block of Swiss cheese but I shouldn't be yelled at for a tiny cartilage piercing; I promise you its not that serious. And tattoos are beautiful works of art; I have two. I would love to get several more but corporate America told me no.

Maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe I'm a free-spirited hippie-love-child. Maybe I'm telling the truth. Or maybe your just mad I actually have the balls to say what you've always been thinking.

What do you think?

Frickin A...

So my life has been pretty rough recently. My uncle died out the blue in September, my boyfriend blindsides me with a break-up last week, I'm drowning in homework, school sucks, parents suck, blase blah, blase splee. But you know... I really don't care right now...

I don't know why but I feel absolutely AMAZING right now! I could take on the whole world, I feel so good! I feel liberated and happy and giddy and excited and you know, I haven't felt like this since I was probably 7 years old. It just doesn't get too much better than this...

Not to mention, this is my first blog post ever and its not nearly as bad as I thought it would be (probably because I'm in such a good mood). I think I'll do this more often. What exactly are you supposed to talk about? Anything? I don't even know what I want to talk about... We'll figure it out. Well, I gotta go get ready for my dinner date, so I will blog you later. Deuces!