Everyone Wants Their Cut

Graduating high school in 2002 from Sandusky Ohio, I was drilled by my teachers and parents that in order to get far in life I’ll have to go to college.  Undecided what field of study I wanted to get into, I had a nice long conversation with my mom about what may best suit my talents and interests.  Knowing I liked working with computers and that I was good with money, with my mom’s help I decided to go into Pre-Information Systems at the University of Toledo. 

While going to school at the University of Toledo, my schedule consisted of such classes as History, Astronomy, Roman History, College Algebra, college English, Sociology, and then finally some computer tech courses.  Looking at my schedule throughout the year I was baffled as to why I needed to take all of these extra courses that didn’t pertain to my field of study.  I had went to my guidance counselor to ask and she replied, “We have all of our students take these core electives so that they come out as well-rounded individuals.”  Now stop and think about this for a minute.  Why in the world are these institutions making it mandatory for individuals to take these core elective classes that absolutely have nothing to do with their field of study?  Is that not why we all went to high school in the first place? How would Roman history or Astronomy make me better at working with computers?  Everyone’s entitled to their own hypothesis and mine would be so that they can get you to stay there an extra year or so to have you fork over more money for tuition. 

For most colleges, their tuition goes up as high as they’re allowed to increase it each and every year.  I have also found that in most if not all colleges they include recreational, sporting event, etc. costs within each student’s tuition and lead your kids to believe that all of these activities are free.  How are we supposed to better ourselves as a country if our young adults are starting their lives out of college (expected to land that great job but if they don’t already have connections may be out of luck) in thousands of dollars in debt?  We’ll touch base on this in my next article.

I would love to hear your thoughts and thanks for reading!

Bryan