Eva Tovar Gil
Professor Monique
Williams
English 1A
December 17, 2013
Reflection:
College Conspiracy
As
the last and oldest sibling around my house my priority is to take care for my
loved ones and provide them with sustainable resources for their living and
with what is necessary for their comfort. I am currently looking forward to
becoming a register nurse in the medical field to make a decent income and
provide my family members with a fair, supportive living. Becoming a register
nurse will take me about four years according to the counselors at the college.
I, however, am looking forward on attaining a higher position in the medical
field but this will require for me to transfer to a four year university. I
have been quite aware that a university level education is of high expense and
yet I don’t have the assets to cope with such expenses. As many of the numerous
loan borrowers who have meet with high debts I will be required to apply for
loans in order to pay for an expensive education and alike them will be forced
to find myself in loan debt. It will take me years to pay back the loans, yet
it will take me even more to pay back the loans combined with the interests. I
fear that because of my future borrowed loans and the high interest rates I
will never be able to free myself from debt; that college will become my new
house without getting a real house, that I will become indentured for life. Although,
I fear the fact that one way or another debt is going to financially hunt me
down, I don’t fear it as much as the thought that because of high debts I will
not be able to carry out the promise of providing my family the comfort of a
home. I fear that I will not have the resources to calm their hunger and keep
them warm.
What
I think is unfair is the beliefs that, of others who have succeeded, are being
induced into one. What I think is most unfair of all, however, is the fact that
the promises and beliefs are coming at such high expenses of time and money
without being worth it all. At a drastic economic in America politicians,
media, and other ambushing sources unbelievably still find the guts to lie in
the face of those that are too naïve to stop dreaming of an American dream.
Experts like such, persist on lying that the only way to come out of poverty is
through education, a fine expensive education like that of theirs. But we are
too poor to even achieve those expenses and the careers we are preparing
ourselves for are not being worth the cost of time and money. In recent years,
too many new undergraduates are not finding jobs in the fields they have
knowledge on and once dreamed of. There are millions of students getting their
degrees and not being recruited within the field of education of which they
studied in, spent thousands of dollars, and tons of precious time, instead if
lucky enough many are working at fields in which have nothing to do with what
they’ve studied. And that’s millions of people who followed the rules in order
to achieve the American Dream who are not being paid back with what they were
once promised with. So, trying to fit on these fellows’ shoes, almost nothing
makes me think that my degree will any more worth than theirs’. If the time
spent following the rules to succeed in America after all isn’t going to pay
off, being lied at to believe that education “will” get us at the horizon of
achieving the American Dream, when too many are currently unemployed or
employed at different fields, is unfair. Too many Americans are falling in high
debts believing this or these debts will pay off because that’s what the
nation’s politicians, media, etc. promised them, that with hard work and
sacrifice comes good fortune but those promises are false statements for
today’s generation.
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