I'm a new blogger so please be gentle with me.
I have to question the reasons for why tuition seems to be going up so fast? I currently attend Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. My tuition for this semester was 4800 dollars for two, just two classes. That was with out-of-state rates which is double that of in-state rates. So, with in-state rates I could have expected 9500 dollars a year in tuition. The government of South Carolina has already stated that it is cutting funding to its public universities and the universities have sad that they'll be increasing tuition. It is expected right now to go up by 500 dollars. 10000 a year in tuition! Federal loans will only cover up to 9500 of that for me.
I currently live at home and pay 500 dollars a month in rent and work 33 hours a week. I can barely make due right now, yet I want to add a car which is an additional 300 dollars or so a month most likely. Now, if I were to go full time to school I'd only be able to work 16 hours a week. I'd have an income of roughly 250 dollars every 2 weeks.
Now, I want to move out and live on campus for a semester while my father remodels and adds an addition to our house. I'd probably pay about 3325 dollars for room and board per semester, that doesn't include the summer. So college could cost me 16,500 dollars a year!
Why can't the government properly fund public education, why do my rates go up faster then inflation, why is the public funding I have access to not enough?
I need this education so I don't get stuck with minimum wage all my life, but is 35k dollars in debt for the last two years of my education worth it?
Get a good job and it'll be worth it. Colleges are far too expensive. I mean, I'm going to a state college and it's expensive, not as bad as yours, but still. Tution + Room is over 10,000, it's nuts, where do they expect us to get this kinda cash, trees? It's just nuts.