Student financial aid... I think Sheena summed up a lot of feelings of irritation a post or so below this. I feel irritated as well; I feel that with the amount we are paying currently, we should really be getting more or even a better quality of what we are getting now.
As a design major, we are currently working on outdated, slow, buggy computers that can't even handle programs that I would really be interested in getting into. I feel like I have not even learned as much as I should have as a senior, and my second year at ODU. This is mostly because of outdated computers, I feel that I will end up elsewhere after graduating to pick up other programs that the school cannot offer with the current technology.
Anyway I went off with a slight rant that I had to force myself to stop adding onto... I will probably discuss more during class.
What I feel about our project? I feel that it is something that needs to be brought up, that if students talk about this more, that they will be able to realize what they are really paying for. Students should really be paying attention to their current financial aid, and maybe somewhere there will be some kind of a reform... A reform where loans won't be so outrageous, that interest rates won't be so high, and maybe the cost of education will be more affordable because there are people right now struggling -- and there are a lot of people struggling -- to even be in college, only to have to struggle with debt later. I know I will be one of those people, I do know I have loans currently ticking per month, and another pile of them waiting to start ticking, and its something very stressful.
I hope our project does get somewhere, even if it starts off as a small whispering voice that will reach out to students.
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You mentioned being worried about paying off your students loans when you graduate and how they are piling up now as we speak.... I think a lot of people don't even think that far ahead and just try to get through school because they don't know much about the loans they are in.
ReplyDeleteAlso, has anyone heard anything about the new bill Obama is working on? Supposedly it will relieve civil servants of a % of their students loans???