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| Something has been bothering me for quite some time now, and that is the upper education system that we have.
We pay $12,000-$50,000 a year to be treated like we're nothing. We pay a lot of money for room and board to live in a small room with a stranger and share a community bathroom where girls like to leave their used tampons around. For the cost of room and board, you can instead pay rent for an apartment, possibly have your own spacious room and a private bathroom. I unfortunately can't do that since the state pays for me to live in these infected dormitories.
Lunch at the dinning commons cost $11 (dinner is obviously even more ) for shitty food that was yesterday's dinner and filled with laxatives. For the amount I pay in a day in swipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner I can essential buy enough groceries for a week. But again, the state pays for it so I'm SOL.
I'm forced to buy these books that are well over $200 to open them once or twice. The return policy ends at the period of add/drop, in two weeks I can't tell if I'll ever open the book. Unfortunately, this comes out of my own pocket.
I'm forced to buy online access codes which range from $30-$80 to do my homework because teachers are just too lazy to correct our homework even though their paychecks come from us. These online homework submissions offer no feedback and unless you go to their office hours (which sometimes are impossible to make and the professors aren't always so keen to see you at a later time) you'll never learn from your mistakes. And what kills me the most is that the school has an online homework system for free. But no, some teachers make us pay to use some equally as crappy website. (If webassign was a man, I would drop kick him.)
What kills me the most is that we spend over $10,000 to fail a course. It's a fucked up system. $200+ per credit (depending on your school and program) for a course where you have this incredibly awful teacher who can't explain what does 1+1 equals with their impossible exams where they can't even get an A in, all for what? To slave over and possibly not even fail. I wouldn't mind as much if the courses were set up correctly and each professor spent a good amount of time in teaching workshops to actually do what their suppose to do. I know a lot them are here for research, but without us, your actual employers, you would be living in a box.
The best part of it all is how administration steps all over us and never provides anything for the people who are giving them their paychecks. We're stuck in crappy dorms, with shitty food, and awful professors while they make well over $100,000 (the president got a 15% raise while student fees goes up, now making over $500,000). We're overcrowded, people are forced to live in lounges and student parking lots are being taken away and given to professors. Yet, we spend millions of dollars to build buildings we don't need, put fountains in the pond, and paint concrete buildings concrete (yes, you heard that right).
Okay, so this is more of an entry about my school and how I'm tired of the corruptive system of public schools. At least private schools act like they give a shit about you and have the resources that we actually need. But what am I going to do? I study all night and still get a C and I don't have the money to afford a private school. What else can you do but bite the bullet? | | |
| So I think I finally know what I want to do with my life: become a structural engineer. Forget architecture, I think that I grew a hate for it. Except for the history of architecture, for some strange reason I really love it the very boring subject.
As I am a math major, I can not do anything with engineering as of yet. Graduate school was always a go for me, and after worrying that I didn't really know what I was going to apply for, within these past few days I came to the conclusion that a master's degree in civil engineering was the thing. It was like an epiphany. And you know what? I feel good about this decision. With architecture I was always afraid that I would have made the wrong choice and if I later realized it, it may have been too late and I was stuck with it.
There's only two problems:
1. Like I said, I am a math major. Luckily a bachelor's degree in science can get me into the program, but then again, I am far behind the other students and it may make my worth less to them. Who knows.
2. I never realized how many little colleges offers civil engineering and how even less offers it at a graduate level. I may end up applying to just three schools; it could be four but I don't want to go to MIT (if I could even get in).
I have a back-up plan just in case I don't get in, although UML should take me in. I will also apply to three undergraduate programs for civil engineering. Yeah I know, an undergrad all over again. The good thing is though, that I have all my core courses down (even for civil I have Physics I and II, Chemistry, Calculus I-III, and Differential Equations) so I can theoretically graduate within two years with a bachelor's degree in civil. It all depends if they take my credits, hopefully.
I'm excited for it all. | | |
| We all know how difficult it is to get a job with this economy. I've been unemployed for the past year and a half and honestly, now with a car, I can't live with the minimal allowance money that my mum gives me. I don't need a big income but more of a $5,000-$7,000 income.
I have no work study so that means that getting a job on campus is impossible. They only want to hire kids where the money they're paying is going to go back to the school. I can't work more then 15 hours a week due to my course work load. So babysitting just seems like a good position. You get paid $10-$15 to watch/interact the kids 10 hours a week.
Now, I applied to one two weeks ago and the lady and I have been communicating back and forth. Today was when I was suppose to go over their house and meet the family. Little did I know, that she was interviewing another girl. When I found out about this it was like all hope was gone.
So I returned back to campus and two hours later I knew I didn't get it. About an hour a go I checked my e-mail and there was my rejection. The other girl got it because she applied first, which to me isn't a good enough reason.
I just feel that if there was another person and who you were putting as number one from the start, then you should have as soon as possible decided that and not dragged me along, its just a tad bit cruel. It's sad, because I really did like her family.
I have $3 to survive me for the week and I have no clean clothes, my water supply is minimal, my car is in need of gas and a few other minor repairs, and I have to come up with $55 to buy an access pass to do my homework. The only thing I can keep doing is searching. | | |
| About a month ago my mum moved in with her boyfriend (they've only been dating for four months now, yeah I know what you're thinking) and because I'm still living with her I had to move in as well, unfortunately.
It's nice because this is the first time since I was three years old we finally have a house. We've been living in the projects for a very long time. It's in a nice neighborhood with five bedrooms. However, I'm not very happy about the overall situation.
I had to move into the only bedroom downstairs because it was the only room where my room set would fit. The last two rooms left over were far too small.
Back in high school, I was in need of a new room set. My mum couldn't afford one for me so we used the money I got from my father's death. And for the first time ever in my life, I had a very nice brand new bedroom set. I've always had either mismatching furniture or old hand-me-downs from someone who upgraded.
My brother got his own room as well, and he got the furniture from my mum's room, but he got a room upstairs. Now, the head board from my mum's stuff won't apparently fit past the top of the stairs. While I'm away at college, they decided, without asking me, to switch up the furniture in mine and my brother's room.
I show up back home last weekend, and luckily they haven't made the switch yet, when my brother informed me, they didn't even have the decency to tell me themselves. I told my mother that that was my room and my stuff, and I didn't want that to happen. Then her boyfriend comes and says we're only changing the beds, but the bureaus and such will stay the same. I told him no, because I've had to live with things not matching and now that I finally get to have a nice room with space and I can't even have it. But of course, without fucking caring about me, he went and did it.
I go back home for break in three days and I'm planning to not stay at my house at all and just crashing at other relative's homes. I don't feel like I'm overreacting, but maybe I am. | | |
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It's something weird to pierce your dimples, but you know what, I kind of like it. I see it as a cute accessory that accentuates your dimples because honestly, who doesn't love them? The piercing just makes them more visible and may even give you some if you don't have any, maybe.
Would I ever get it? No. I would never hear the end of it from my family, friends, and boyfriend but that's not the main reason why. I would just not like to have something on my face that I couldn't really take off unless I wanted it to close. If facial piercings were something like necklaces, you put it on for the effect and when you take it off it leaves no trail and you can always put it back on without having a needle go through again, then hell yeah. I love how metal can look and the edgy style it can give you. I would be mixing it up with a lacey delicate shirt, skinny jeans, flats, and my hair crazy curly. I like the contradiction in style, dressing up as two things at once.
Unfortunately though, I have been loosing piercings and letting them close because I don't feel like having a hundred going through me and dealing with cleaning and buying jewelry.
What do you guys think? | | |
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