| Some of the best times in people's lives are when | | | | still payments that are expected to be paid by the |
| they look back and think about those great days of | | | | student. If a student cannot afford to eat a decent |
| college; the new friends, memories, parties, no | | | | meal, how on earth are they supposed to pay |
| parents, and more parties. Then they quickly | | | | thousands of dollars for books? They can take out |
| remember what was not so great about college; the | | | | loans, but by the end of graduation they are left with |
| study sessions that lasted two days, bombing your | | | | a diploma in one hand and a large debt in the other. |
| first test, and morning classes with hangovers. They | | | | Then they are expected to go out into the |
| also remember the debt that they were in for over | | | | workforce and succeed. This debt can hang over |
| a decade from their four years of partying. Many | | | | their heads for several years. This is not only true for |
| people had grant money for college education, but | | | | the lowest income bracket, but for most students. |
| still managed to graduate with thousands of dollars in | | | | For middle class students who do receive partial |
| debt. College is expensive. | | | | grants, they are expected to somehow come up |
| With scholarships, loans, and grant money for college | | | | with the extra money. They have to find a job, get |
| education, most people who graduate are still in debt. | | | | a loan, or quit schooling all together in order to pay |
| There is no doubt that these grants and scholarships | | | | for it. Many students do have jobs in college, but |
| have helped a ton, but college is much more | | | | unfortunately, they do not pay well. There are so |
| expensive than most suspect. Many students fill out | | | | many students looking for jobs, that employers will |
| scholarship applications, essays, and FAFSA, hoping | | | | pay them minimum wage and they will agree to it. It |
| and praying that they can get some sort of funding, | | | | is a vicious cycle that seems to have only one |
| and most of them do. The government is great | | | | ending; debt. |
| about giving grant money for college education, but is | | | | There is no doubt that students are grateful for the |
| it enough? | | | | grant money for college education, but is it enough? |
| For students who are in the lowest income bracket, | | | | Work hard, get into more debt, and then graduate |
| the amounts of grants that they receive are | | | | with trouble already ahead, this is the story for too |
| enormous. All though this is very generous, there are | | | | many students. |