shmorri2
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I'm not completely defending this girl, but I think she's getting more flak than she deserves. I think what we're going through now with college students and loan debts isn't something that's happened too often in the past because the economy has treated college grads quite well with decent paying jobs right off the bat. So it's kind of hard to think about something like this when we've never seen it before. That's not a cop-out for this girl and her mom, but its not like they had a lot of warning (at this girl's age, the economy was doing quite well when she entered).
And not everyone is cut-out to be an engineer, computer systems, etc. major. I skipped two maths in junior high and had a teacher travel from the high school to teach me and three other kids geometry while we were in 8th grade. Yet I would look at my roommate's lower math classes for his engineering degree, and it might as well have been sanscrit to me. People who say she should have picked a more practical degree don't realize that not everyone is cut out for those degrees and would have a good probability of failing out if they went that route.
What should this girl have majored in?? Sociology? Communications?? English?? Public Relations?? They might have been slightly better than her womens/religious studies major, but marginally by ya'lls standards...and she'd most likely still be jobless (or a photographer's assistant). Most people here still laugh at Business management majors....but if you can't handle the science and math that are required for engineering and related degrees, what exactly are you suppose to major in that's going to guarantee you a job when you get out??
I feel like this is only going to get worse in the years to come unless this economy makes a ridiculous, unexpected U-turn. It will also get worse with the people going into grad programs because they can't find a job and/or pay their undergrad debt. I lose count of all my fellow law school classmates who added $120K debt to their sometimes current $100K debt from undergrad. My last roommate was paying over $1,100 a month in school loan payments an my current roommate is paying $900.
Kids are just going to have to realize that they can't go out of state for college. And if you can't afford to make payments on your undergrad loan, don't fucking go to grad school.  6/2/2010 7:02:28 PM
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