So wow, yet even more writing to get help to pay for that ridiculous expense called "college." Its a wonder there's not more people robbing banks to try to help get their kids, or even themselves through college. I guess America isn't as stupid as some people are saying (because only stupid people would rob banks?) Well maybe, but it seems almost as if the idea of robbing a bank, a felony, isn't as crazy as paying $200,000 to get through just the first four years of college. That means to earn a Master, a PhD, or anything above a Bachelors (unless you're crazy smart) costs more than buying a house, or going on vacation for like...5 months...
Sometimes I want to take the latter, buy a house and go on vacation, live up the high life while I'm still here. Because honestly, I could get hit by a car tomorrow, and what would my life show? Slaveing away at after-school jobs, staying up until 2 doing meaningless homework about the French Revolution (and how is that going to help me be a doctor?), and watching myself become isolated from all of society because I spend every minute of my freetime looking at FastWeb and surfing the Internet and writing essays for every single scholarship I'm even half eligible for, because there's no way in hell that i'll even begin to be able to pay for my education right now.
My point? Sorry, but i held two jobs, sometimes 3 my junior year, working 35 hours a week, sometimes up to 45, to rack in the money to put into a timed-locked savings account, to get that magical $100 in interest, that will only pay for 1/8 of my rent. Haha, almost wasted effort. So I'm torn, just like i know many of you are. Why would anybody try to put themselves through college? Well the obvious, don't we all just want good paying jobs, a bright future, enough money to follow our dreams, a good job to build our retirement funds and lay down and rest from the frantic life we had in retirement. I want to retire good!
But anyways, as much as i want to sit here going "damnit, i wanna go to the Bahamas" i know i'll keep working, keep writing essays, keep struggling ever on forward towards college, and the much anticipated "after college life" with almost more eager anxiousness than religious ones await heaven. Why? Because its just what we do...
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