Editor,
I am graduating soon and while college and educational experiences were often positive, there is significant fault at hand. Student fees continue to rise and do not support the University’s primary goal of education. Student organizations and varying athletics leached money from me for over four years.
Students are taking classes that provide nothing to their lives besides the insincere self-assurance that they are empathetic to the weak and disenfranchised. In reality, they know nothing of real hardship or difference. They don’t know how to overcome challenge because life dealt them a bad hand and everyone else is to blame.
Art and music degrees allow students to believe that they can leave college with no skills other than creating the nude image of a human being on canvas. These are the lessons we have chosen to teach our youth. Do not work hard. Do not respect the body. Wither your time away on music, pleasure and useless Socratic seminars.
They will leave your college thinking as these were the best moments of their lives and when their bodies are no longer beautiful, they will think only of the past. Staying alive, young, beautiful and taking pleasure over values, challenge, hard work and a real understanding of where the boundaries of our lives lead.
When your actions now speak louder than your words, then you have a college degree.
Chris R.
Daily Lobo reader
