News, University District students forced to turn to food banks.

[sean98125]

Good lord - if you can't afford to feed yourself when you're going to school, maybe it's time to go out and get a job and put school on hold for a little while. The credits will still be there waiting for you when you come back.

Not everyone gets to be a princess - sometimes you have to buckle down and face reality instead of expecting everyone to make your way easy for you.

[tada]

Originally Posted by sean98125

Good lord - if you can't afford to feed yourself when you're going to school, maybe it's time to go out and get a job and put school on hold for a little while. The credits will still be there waiting for you when you come back.

Not everyone gets to be a princess - sometimes you have to buckle down and face reality instead of expecting everyone to make your way easy for you.

That's true, but there is a such thing as atrophying. It can be tough remembering material from courses you took a long time ago. You may still have the credits, but not the knowledge.

[jenlion]

Dunno, I'm with Pete and Sean. We've collectively decided as a society that we owe everyone an education: K-12 is publicly paid for.

We have NOT decided we owe everyone a college education. Is it fair that some people get one and some don't? No. Would you rather be a communist? If not, then, well, there's a lot of basic unfairness that's going to happen.

I certainly don't think people should go hungry. But I know I lost 15 pounds instead of gaining it when I got to college. The food in the cafeteria made me sick, sick, sick the first six months. So I DID something about it. I took to scouring the parking lots looking for 30 cents and trying to bum a ride to mcdonald's to buy a hamburger (I'm not THAT old, this was 1996, they really did cell them for 30 cents for awhile!). If I found another dime, I sprung for the cheeseburger. I see you can get double cheeseburgers for $1 now but it's easier to find change now too.

Then I landed a job at Subway, and all was good. Yes, it's very hard to hold a job and attend a competetive college at the same time. I had to quit chemistry because I was too damn tired to safely handle chemicals (hellloooo, lab shower!). But LIFE IS HARD and full of tough choices.

Here's a quote from the article: ""Before, when I lived in the dorms, I was on the meal plan," the 20-year-old said. "Now that I'm in the apartment, I have to pay for food, and I have to pay my cell phone bill. I don't make enough to pay for both."". -- THEN CUT OUT THE F*ING CELL PHONE BILL. It is NOT required to live. How in the WORLD can you justify taking food from the food bank that is there to FEED PEOPLE AND THEIR KIDS so you can talk to your idiot college friends on the G-D-D--N-F--KING CELL PHONE?! Or move back into the dorm; that's what it's FOR. It's not efficient for students to live independently in apartments -- it's efficient for them to live together, share rooms, and eat on the cheap! If that's not good enough for you then you need to invent a way to make it work (scour the parking lot for change or get another job!). And if you don't like your options, you QUIT SCHOOL and support yourself. You do NOT get to drain public resources for an education beyond grade 12! And if it's private, even MORE shame on you!

I just can't believe that after 13 years of free schooling, people feel like we need to support them through 4 (or more!) years. If you can't do it on your own, then tough f*ing luck. Yeah, some people have an easy ride. They have family who pays whenever. Some people are brilliant and get full scholarships. That's great. It's something to strive for (a part of the American Dream, maybe). But the part of my Social Contract about education says I help pay for your kids to go through grade 12. That's it.