Alright, first blog - here we go. You may be able to guess why I've suddenly shown up on the scene here on progressiveU. They offered money after all! Can you blame me for being attracted? Many of you out there have probably been in my shoes before, if not currently; college closing in, parents are trying to scrape together the money to send you off, and you have to find some way to help. And it's a considerable sum that has to be collected! It's not as if I'm going to Harvard; and yet still I find my parents doling out a good portion of their life savings to fund my education. I find it baffling, really; a state school is going to bleed my college fund dry in only two years? University of Illinois, crown jewel of Illinois' college system, secretly practicing vampirism upon unknowing incoming freshmen.
Why is it though? Has inflation gone so out of control that this becomes another side effect, the unaffordability of college education? I don't claim to be an economist of any sort, so I won't risk the endangerment of my intelligent facade by setting forth any sort of theory towards this question. But still, I simply do not understand why education, somthing this country claims to support, is becoming increasingly unattainable by the average population. Does anyone know? Could someone perhaps shed a little light on my confusion? Or perhaps just simply comment on my statement?
Either way, I thank you for your time.
~ SoulSong107
I think this is a valid point and I agree. My family is planted firmly in the middle class and yet ever since I can remember we've been scrimping and saving for college. Now that I have one brother in school (Rutgers, too, which is supposed to be cheap for NJ residents), we can barely manage. He works two jobs, not to mention handling work-study and eighteen credits per semester just to be able to pay his half of the bill. We are not dumb, we're not unmotivated, we just don't have money - isn't the system supposed to help people like us? And yet here we are, the rich are going to Ivy League schools to waste four+ years and the smart are getting disillusioned with the world before they can even vote.
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"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive."