Making Higher Education Affordable
Cross-posted at Some Notes on Living.
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Why is it so important to make college affordable and accessible to all high school students who want to attend, and have the grades necessary? Let me begin by telling you a story:
When I was 16, about to enter my senior year of high school, I’d been dreaming about going to college for probably four or five years. I thought of the courses I would take, how hard it would be living away from my family, worried over whether or not I’d be asked to join a sorority - and decided it didn’t matter.
Over those four or five years, I’d created an elaborate dream for myself: How I’d graduate and land a great job, own my own house with a bright red door, a little picket fence and a huge bed of wildflowers. I’d dress like the folks on Dynasty and Dallas (hey, it was the 80’s…) and I would never, ever, have to work outside in freezing cold and blistering hot.
Reality hit, slowly, in bits and pieces, over the next few months.
