“Of course, it’s not enough for us to increase student aid. We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money. States also need to do their part, by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. And colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down. Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who’ve done just that. Some schools re-design courses to help students finish more quickly. Some use better technology. The point is, it’s possible. So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.
Higher education can’t be a luxury – it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” - President Obama
On New Year’s I got drunk and threw away my last pair of contacts, I lost my syllabus for one of my classes and didn’t realize it until the day my oral presentation is due (which of course I now have no idea what my topic is supposed to be since we were all individually assigned one), I got drunk and dropped half my classes, and I am enrolled into the wrong lab causing mass inconvenience to my professor, my boss and myself. I’m beginning to believe my life could be summed up with the phrase, “que mierda.”
That is all.