Universities are the downfall of contemporary society. Four-year universities are predatory entities
which select students whose parents have the ability to take out loans to pay
ridiculous amounts of money for classes which are (generally) useless, and then
students are penalized if (god forbid) they can’t sustain 12 credit hours.
Additional bonus:
students HAVE to live on campus freshman year, thus ensuring they will
have to pay the university more in housing than in actual tuition. (And I won’t even address the financial rape
of the cost of textbooks- usually written by the professor teaching the class.)
Here’s the deal:
sometimes, life happens. College
coursework if often totally inapplicable to reality. A student needs about half of the bullshit classes
offered by any given university, but if that student doesn’t pay the extortion fees; they’re fucked. Student end up taking
nonsense courses, only because there are NO REAL ADVISORS on the UNL
campus. Professors are forced to take on
x-number of students per semester to advise, thus they don’t care.
Personally, I am tired of acquiring personal loans to pay
off college classes that get my children a whole lot of nothing. Nothing.
They get a degree. Awesome. What does that degree get them? Nothing.
UNLESS … they are trying to be a lawyer or a doctor or a teacher or an
engineer (or some other field which is specially designated to train a human
being to do a job). Or UNLESS, they get
lucky and stumble into a field which is hiring.
Sounds like a pretty shitty investment, yes?
Getting a degree in the humanities is like taking
$20-$40,000 in cash and wiping your ass with it. Cross your fingers and hope, right? Mortgage your future on something which MIGHT
work out … maybe.
Why is today’s society preying on the next generation of
people?? We are putting them in a
position where they have a college degree, but can’t afford to live anywhere or
pay any other expenses besides the college loans they (and parents, on their
behalf) took out.
Maybe, one day, the United States government, and their
state counterparts, will consider the possibility of EDUCATING college
students, rather than feeding them lies about the requirements of any given
job.
I am a high school teacher, and I thought my job was to help
prepare kids for college. As it turns
out, colleges are just a “higher” level of education, on the level of “going-to-the-library-and-checking-out-books”. To be perfectly honest, most students would
be better off reading books from their local library than throwing money at
possibility.
Read a book. Read a
lot of books.
And fuck universities, until they can pay a little respect
to the young people who are keeping them in business.
