As I sit here and listen to The Beatles and let my mind wander around the landscape of todays current events and the freshest of fresh minds writing and thinking hard (to show us they are the best, not to actually BE the best) I really wonder if the majority of this country could really be as stupid as the news anchors and public speakers in the loop may make them out to be. Then I realize...
If you haven’t already, eventually, you are going to leave home. Exciting! Well, for a while. Then you realize you have no idea what you’re doing. Maybe you should have tried the dorm life first? Maybe living in the dorms wasn’t a good enough transition between living at home and your first apartment?
Like many other college students were here to make our future and the future of the world a better place....like many other college students were wondering WHY IS EVERYTHING SO DARN EXPENSIVE!!!!I work two jobs, one on the college campus and the other at a restaurant as a waitress/casheir, I make pretty good money if you combine the two, but their minimum wage, I live at home with parents since th
That's right, you read that correctly. "Middle-income families can expect to spend $204,060 on feeding, housing and schooling a child born in 2007 until his or her 18th birthday, the U.S. government reported on Monday." This number includes child care and education (NOT COLLEGE EDUCATION), transportation, health care, and food.
I've realized more and more over the past few weeks of how many people complain about the cost of higher education. And to some degree, I'm right there complaining with them. College is expensive, and very nearly out of reach for a lot of people.
So right now I'm a senior in high school, struggling to figure out in what ways I can come up with $12,000 or $7,000 (depending on if I get this one scholarship) to go to a small private school that I am dead-set on going to.
Hey everybody out their in cyberland, I'm SC_Dem08, showing that yes South Carolina actually does hold some Democrats, shocking yeah. Believe me, we are few an fair between, unfortunately for me. Anyways I'm seventeen, almost 18 years old and for my first official blog I thought it was only appropriate to have a little chat on well College.
Sometimes I really wonder about America. Is this country really so great? We grow up hearing about how lucky we are to live in a country that has so much freedom and offers so many opportunities, but are we really lucky?
