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...
I agree with you 100%. My mom says that these colleges/state governments are robbing the students. And they have been for years! There is no way that a university should cost this much. and the professors and board of the university are the ones rolling in dough because that is where our tuition goes. But since we are paying so much, i think the quality of education should be way better. like we should be up there with the Asian Countries in academics since we are paying this much. oh and about the scholarships are they not only hard to find they are VERY hard to keep. esp for a science/math major.
ReplyDeleteHell yes woman. Agree, I am in the same proverbial boat as you. Its bullbutter thats what it is!
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