Its amazing! I just got of the phone with my girl, who's a psychology major at a local community college, and she just starting talking to me about noticing how much more packed college classes are now opposed to 1 yr ago...which then led me to think about this older woman I work with who's 52, a single parent of one, and who's currently finishing up her bachelors program with UOP (University of Phoenix) and over hearing her one day talking about how from her bachelors program she's going to jump straight into a masters program and then dive right back in for her doctorate, to say the least, just to avoid paying back her student loans.
Now at the time, my thought was "listen to this goofy ass ole lady and her washed up antics", and of coarse the fact that her daughter is almost 18 and the reality is beginning to set in that she wont be able to live off of her daughters child support anymore; none the less, I just began to witness how the cultural landscape of higher education right before my eyes was beginning to shift from excellence and professionalism in order to thrive in corporate america to a come up and supplemental income scheme. Essentially, people just staying in school just to use student loans to finance a way of living or people continuing education just to avoid the everyday realities of life - that's like staying employed w/ the cable company just to get free a cable (LOL).
