A recent blog entry on this site really hit home for me. As an out-of-state sophomore in college, I'm already well into debt with student loans and still have two more years to complete, not even including grad school. I save as much money as I can spare, just so I have backup money for unexpected expenses.
Though I've never really thought about it before now, I realize that I'm not the only one.
I'm only one of thousands who have to live with the Oxymoron of being Too Rich and yet Too Poor.
Too rich to qualify for grants. Too poor to pay tuition every year.
What angers me the most is that my school's state provides several scholarships to students with a certain GPA, which I am more than qualified for--if not for the fact that I'm not an in-state student. Yet nothing is provided for out-of-state students unless they are exceptionally ranked in GPA and SAT scores, which I am sadly not. Yet they charge more than twice the tuition for out-of-state students.
Usually I can go about not thinking about it, reminding myself that everything will turn out all right. But there are some instances when I just get so angry at the injustice of the entire system! How do colleges have the right to expect so much from students, especially those who can barely provide it?
It reminds me of the beginning of this school year, after learning that my tuition costs had increased. Luckily, my student loans covered the cost but I was still smarting about it. When I got back to campus, I saw that the historical buildings on campus were being redone, the new science center was under way, and construction on another recent building was still continuing. My jaw internally dropped when I realized, "This is what I'm paying for? To make your campus look pretty so you can lure more students and suck the money from them, too? To build facilities that, honestly, probably aren't even needed and that I will never even utilize?"
In short, nothing useful for me whatsoever. (I might also add that the in-state tuition was also increased, but significantly less than the out-of-state tuition.)
It angers me that colleges do this. It angers me that more money isn't provided to help students. It angers me that education comes with such a high price tag that unfairly doesn't make it available to everyone.
I should probably wrap this up, before I start going into a rant on how our society needs to adapt more ideals of socialism.
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