Hold on just a minute: No-tuition College?

English: Study of rising college costs due to cost shifting from state funding to tuition. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On my last post, two of the related articles at the bottom are about colleges waiving tuition.  If only this idea would catch on!  I want to transfer to a 4 year school once I get my associate's degree, but I really don't want to have to take out loans.  

It could happen.  Last weekend I watched an episode of "Adam Ruins Everything" where he "ruined" college.  That kind of needs an explanation:  he wasn't saying that college was unnecessary, or anything like that.  He was actually giving facts and figures on how vital it is to have a degree if you want to be employed.  And how, because of that change in our economy, we need to rethink college tuition:  public elementary and high schools are tuition-free because people needed to have that level of education in order to get jobs and become productive members of society, so there is a precedent. Anyway, he had a lawyer on who specializes in student loan issues, and she flat-out said that there shouldn't be tuition at state schools.  

You can watch the whole episode on their website above.  I think everybody should!

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Time to Get Going!

books I got from library for this semester :) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today is Saturday of the first week of the fall semester, and I am finally getting my blog ready.  I'm kind of worried about it, because the prof told us that she would be making "random progress checks."  So, I guess I better be pretty careful to keep it up to date, which means I need to do another post today about one of the readings in our textbook. 
Which brings me to my main problem:  organization.  This time, I'm going to make a schedule and stick to it (just so you know, I said this every semester throughout high school--and I usually fell apart after a few weeks).  It seems to me that publishing that statement for the entire world to read if they want to will make me feel more committed.  This and my profile are probably all anyone needs to know about me.

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