“My dad is a gardener, my mom is a maid — I come from immigrant families, and how the hell am I supposed to afford this education?” asked freshman Stephanie Benitez.
What do your parents’s incomes have to do with anything? They’ve been supporting you all along. Get a job, SAVE your money, apply for the countless numbers of grants and scholarships out there—you know, WORK for what you want.
I can tell you first hand as someone who until recently worked at a school and who now works with school-age kids, there is TONS of money out there for those who truly want an education—you just have to look.
I guess that’s me being an eeeeevil capitalist, though.
The key element of American society...is that you run your own life. You build the steps to a successful career. If you X amount of money, then you take that and squeeze it for as much education as possible. If you can only afford a local community college situation for two years...then do it and find a real job afterwards. If you push your position in life up a notch in five years....fine, start with night-school via a local college or distance-learning, and go after the bachelor’s degree then when you can afford it.
This is the American system. Tens of millions did it this way in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Fantastic careers were built step by step. What I see from the current crowd of naive youngsters....is that they want someone else to cover costs...like a free ride. They figure that a great job will result out of the four-year degree. In some cases, you just might end up as the local manager of a car-rental enterprise...making as much money as the guy who was there before with a year of some community college.
Her parents are probably illegals and she may be as well. Further, it is obvious from her snivelling that she has never worked for anything in her life and the world owes whatever she wants.
That is not the point. You all with your “get a job” mantra....
The point is that the “university” is stealing by creating bloated budgets and salaries for those liberals in academia and making a college education available only to the elites due to the expense.
When I was in school, I earned $90 a week at my job as a hostess at a restaurant, got student loans and paid $750 a semester not counting books. I graduated with $5,000.00 in loans. These days those numbers are laughable.
My parents part in the deal was I lived at home the first year and they gave me $10 a week. They worked for Catholic newpapers.