I'm so sick and tired of libs demanding that students juggle scholarship applications, working, studying, and fucking starving in order to get through college.
Y'know what? I don't think students should have to fucking work during school and it is fcked up that we've normalized grinding people into dust in order to achieve an education.
Oh, and fuck you if you have a learning disability and can't do both school and work. Guess it's poverty for you, buddy.
working full time while going to school full time is a high effort way to squeeze out on a lot of enriching opportunities that only exist through school: student organization/activism, extracurricular research, scholarship competitions, conferencing, independent study/overseas studies, etc. it's one thing to work while in school to keep a roof over your head and food in your belly, but it's something else to do it to avoid loans. i know loans are predatory and shitty, but they can't repossess your knowledge, experience, social capital, and connections.
guarantee the guy who "worked full time at home depot" and "may have had a sports scholarship" to graduate debt free with a "useless degree" absolutely compounded the uselessness of his education by focusing only on the credential. i mean, jesus, at least get a campus gig.
Those social opportunities are better at getting set later in life than the degree.
Networking is more powerful than a resume. Yeah it’s basically a form of nepotism. Being in a frat in college is likely to give a better outcome than working full time to graduate without debt.
yeah, the frat society b.s. is proof of concept. frats are how elites baked in the social capital on top of the academic credential. however, the option for a better alternative is there to: joining or starting a chapter to some national some give-a-fuck organization, or being an active participant of the [insert interest here] club. the networking value can be realized a lot of different ways. maybe it won't launch a recent grad into some bullshit executive pipeline at JP Morgan Chase or BP, but whomst among us was trying to go that route anyway?
Don't want college students having free time to organize against things like war, gotta crush em.
Yeah like, these days your degree is only "worth" something on the job market if you've got the internship/job/research experience to complement it. Ignoring that necessity so you can work more hours and act all smug when you graduate debt-free is akin to tying your shoelaces together at the start of a ten mile hike. Good way to ensure that your "useless degree" is indeed economically useless to yourself.
Edit: by lib logic anyway, hope that's clear