One of the few things I miss from high school is that the textbooks were free. Sure, they may have been covered in a decade’s worth of graffiti, Cheeto-dust, and drool, but as long as you didn’t lose the cover, you didn’t have to pay for the pleasure of lugging around 15 pounds of text. Unfortunately, college isn’t like this. The past couple days, I’ve sadly been ruminating on how much the coming semester will cost me, just for books. You can buy used books, and I probably will, but even then many books cost over a hundred dollars. It’s hard not to get frustrated with the system, too: new editions are released every other year, with hardly any new information, which just make the prices higher and make old books harder to resell. Maybe the only plus is that after spending an obscene amount on my books, I’ll be motivated to put them to good use.
- Will
Posts Tagged ‘Money’
Leaning Isn’t Cheap
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Paying for College
Friday, November 4th, 2011
It is unfortunate that the price tag for a college education is getting more and more unreachable, especially for those who are not lucky enough to be sons and daughters of multi-billionaires – which are practically almost all of us. I often question the hypocrisy of higher education institutions who often claim to push forward for intellectual advancement and social good yet make knowledge so hard to attain, a direct cause for an unhealthy society. The least fortunate among us, who do not have educated parents or go to well-funded schools will not even receive guidance on applying for grants, scholarships and financial aid. The temporary solution is that if you know your school and parents cannot help you, you should help yourself by starting early on the financial aid research.
- Phy
Greed Is Not Good
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Being greedy is a flaw within your character. Greedy could be for anything, like money, love, and or power. We all think greed as money, that’s probably the first thing you think of when you hear or see greed. Being greedy of love is like taking advantage with your relationship with someone that you love, kinda like taking over and telling them to do this to you or something sexually… Now to the power. Some kings or presidents or leaders could be taking control of something. But that doesn’t mean you use it to your advantage. Like saying something completely ridiculous, like killing anyone that disobeys. Don’t be greedy is what I’m trying to say. Don’t take advantage of people either.
- Matt
An Indebted Generation?
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
A college education in America has never been more expensive. In fact, his year, student loans would exceed $1 trillion. In no other country do we see college education as a profitable industry. Yet in America, with the price tags for education skyrocketed, there are still proposals to create for-profit institutions. It’s time for college to use their endowments in buffering student financial challenges. We are already the first generation to not outlive our parents, now we are the generation that never finish paying our debts as well, hence so many of us have to go back to our parents’ home after college graduation.
- Phy