Mrs. Reidy
English 1101
26 October 2016
TED Talk Financial aid is a topic that many American college students deal with. It is something that haunts us for the rest of our lives. A student is very fortunate if they are able to pay in whole for their college every semester, including books, room and board, and tuition. Being from a fortunate family, our parents are willing to pay the first four years of our college as long as we keep hope scholarship. With the use of students loans it is supposed to make college more accessible to teenagers. Student loans are designed to help students pay for tuition, books, and living expenses. Though yes, interest rates are much lower on student loans then on any other loans, it does not make paying them …show more content…
With the discussion of the topic finical aid it is obvious that he is trying to reach the audience of college aged kids. A huge problem that students face today is finding a way to go and pay for college. It is a social expectant to go to college and get a degree. Colleges have made it accessible for students to get money loans so that we can attend these colleges, but how accessible is it really? What students do not understand is how naive they are being. We take a loan here, and another one there, and that is all okay right now. Then in four years when we graduate college we realize how much we really borrowed and do not know how we are going to pay that off. Students end up living their lives in debt. Lissaint argues the point of why colleges should be more accessible for that exact …show more content…
The price of education is such a debated topic around the world. Students have to decide what they are going to do with the rest of their lives after high school and going into their college years; if students do not have the financial means to attend college then the decision is already made for them and that is not fair. If colleges made tuition a little cheaper and made the interest rates on loans a little lower then more students would be able to attend their universities. With attendance rates increasing the university would be making more money then if they had the high tuition. Lissaint’s passion towards the subject of loans made him believable. The more passionate about a subject a speaker is the more reliable people seem to think that they are. With Lissaint painting a vivid image of how loans put our degrees in shackles it helped me as a viewer to understand and grasp his point behind the way that we are drowning in debt just to get an education. Readers walk away with a broader view of how taking out loans enslaves student’s everyday for roughly twenty years of their life after graduating from
English 1101
26 October 2016
TED Talk Financial aid is a topic that many American college students deal with. It is something that haunts us for the rest of our lives. A student is very fortunate if they are able to pay in whole for their college every semester, including books, room and board, and tuition. Being from a fortunate family, our parents are willing to pay the first four years of our college as long as we keep hope scholarship. With the use of students loans it is supposed to make college more accessible to teenagers. Student loans are designed to help students pay for tuition, books, and living expenses. Though yes, interest rates are much lower on student loans then on any other loans, it does not make paying them …show more content…
With the discussion of the topic finical aid it is obvious that he is trying to reach the audience of college aged kids. A huge problem that students face today is finding a way to go and pay for college. It is a social expectant to go to college and get a degree. Colleges have made it accessible for students to get money loans so that we can attend these colleges, but how accessible is it really? What students do not understand is how naive they are being. We take a loan here, and another one there, and that is all okay right now. Then in four years when we graduate college we realize how much we really borrowed and do not know how we are going to pay that off. Students end up living their lives in debt. Lissaint argues the point of why colleges should be more accessible for that exact …show more content…
The price of education is such a debated topic around the world. Students have to decide what they are going to do with the rest of their lives after high school and going into their college years; if students do not have the financial means to attend college then the decision is already made for them and that is not fair. If colleges made tuition a little cheaper and made the interest rates on loans a little lower then more students would be able to attend their universities. With attendance rates increasing the university would be making more money then if they had the high tuition. Lissaint’s passion towards the subject of loans made him believable. The more passionate about a subject a speaker is the more reliable people seem to think that they are. With Lissaint painting a vivid image of how loans put our degrees in shackles it helped me as a viewer to understand and grasp his point behind the way that we are drowning in debt just to get an education. Readers walk away with a broader view of how taking out loans enslaves student’s everyday for roughly twenty years of their life after graduating from