The Adventures of a Talented American College Student

Yeahhhh really loving America right now, let me tell you. I'm not someone who likes to accept hand outs but just to get through August as a student at Rose it looks like I'm going to have to find the food stamps office in Terre Haute. I will also be homeless, sleeping at friends houses, maybe even taking showers in the SRC if I have to. God I love America!! Woooo, "We're #1, we're #1!"

How did I get in this situation? A twisted combination of fate and personal choice of course. I chose to try and get a "top-rate" education by leaving Kentucky. Fate put me where I am right now. But somehow I persevere and push on. I do my best not to let it all get me down. No one around me understands what it's like...they all admittedly are at Rose because of their parents or family support.

I worked hard in high school so that I could be where I am today. It just so happens that the place where I am isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, there's a gold pot at the end of the rainbow, but you've got to starve and overwork yourself to get there. It's a ridiculous system that only our European brethren have figured out how to fix. But I'm not a citizen here, I'm a citizen in what was once the "greatest nation on Earth" - America. And in America, youth are treated like shit and have to put up with discrimination in a whole host of areas from credit to employment.

Sorry...I think I'm entitled to vent a little about our fucked up system. I'm in the trenches living it, and it fucking sucks. And Rose is pissing me off more than I can stand: did you know that I actually got APPROVED for a fucking loan to cover my housing this fall while I co-op at Sony and the bastards in the financial aid department won't give me my loan? Yeah, I go on co-op each fall to afford the rest of the year at Rose. And they won't give me my loan BECAUSE I'm on co-op. How fucked up is that? Not to mention illegal, since the co-op is a pre-approved school program that keeps my legal status on as a full-time student. And the law states that you can't deny aid to a full-time student. But whatever...they can keep laughing at me from behind their golden walls. I'm going to get through this shit and never donate a fucking cent to them after I graduate because of how much crap they put me through.

God bless America!!! Education is our top priority!!! (Yeah, right.)