which is why im looking at 2016, not 2008... plus, president bush can barely put together a coherent sentence, so i would imagine that most of what he says is pre-written for him. There is no one writing my answers...this is all just what i think and know, and when i dont know something, i admit it.

i had a sticker on my beer fridge in college that read:

College is just a bar with a 30,000 dollar cover charge

Far too many kids look at it like that, and that accounts for the slow devaluation of a college degree. There are way too many "party schools", which have far too soft of entry requirements. pretty much anyone who can get a handful of funding can get into college for at least one semester, and college has turned into a sort of docking station between high school and real life. That isnt what college is meant to be. These kids who have NO place in college take things like federal grants and loans, and waste them. They have no idea what they want to do with themselves, so when they go to college, they spend a semester or two taking intro classes, none of which interest them, so they dont put any effort into it...and they fail or drop out. Now, that grant could have been a HUGE benefit to someone like me, who entered school knowing exactly what i was there for, and I had to pay it myself. My parents helped as much as they could, but they werent able to pay for everything, and i feel that knowing that when i was done with school, i would be paying for it literally, i valued the time that i spent there and i was going to make for damn sure that i left there with a piece of paper that said that i knew something, about something...


however, i knew a TON of kids who even after 2 or 3 years were undecided. Again, college isnt a break room to hide in until you know what you want to do with yourself. there shouldnt be majors like "general studies", because that doesnt prepare you for any sort of future, and those people come out of school with a "degree", which effectively devalues MY degree in tax accounting with a minor and economics. i had friends who, year after year, took a handful of intro courses, and struggled through them all...only to eventually run out of funding, so they quit school to find a job. Again, wasted time and money. Far too many kids go to college because it is the "thing to do". Kids are expected to go to college, but its not for everyone.

On the first day of school, the professor in my useless freshman prep class said "introduce yourself to the person to your left, then to the right, then in front of you. you now know three people, if not more...and of those three people, 1 wont be in school after this semester, and of those three, only one will ever graduate." That doesnt seem odd to anyone else? How can we expect funding programs to take serious consideration into putting more money into these programs when there is only a 1 in 3 success rate?