Out Of Poverty

In his book, Angela’s Ashes, Mr. Frank McCourt says, “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” This quote can easily be a showcase for what has been occurring in the past, recent years. The face of what will make you succeed in life has been rapidly and continuously changing. It has become much more complicated. Since the very concept of higher education has been introduced, it has been common knowledge and assumption that by attending these expensive, important institutions, people can and will have an easier time getting through life. A college degree should keep you out of poverty. It has opened up many opportunities that otherwise would have been unavailable.
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The blogger, Meg, tells us of her struggles after receiving her degree. She creates this blog to attempt to solicit advice and give warnings of life struggles after college. It was established right off the bat that she had not an easy or successful career as she had planned after attending college. In the first post, “How to Follow Your Dreams into a Post-Graduate Nightmare”, the blogger describes how after she was accepted in to her university, she had worked and studied hard. She quickly became one of the top students in all of her classes. She tells of the hours she worked to ensure that she would succeed in the career that she had longed for since she was small. It is sad but easy to imagine the shock that Meg had when she graduated from her undergraduate school only to find that all of the work that she had completed in ensuring that her career would be successful would possibly had gone to waste. She had an absurdly difficult time finding a job and even simple work. She quickly began to fall into poverty and decided that she would not give up on her dream quite yet and that the only way she could succeed in her ambitions would be to go back to school. She would study and work even harder than she ever had before and graduate with her masters. She took pricey mandatory tests to apply. The application fees cost around 50 dollars per application to each of the schools where she applied. By paying for these things that she could ill afford, she fell more into poverty giving her even more incentive and urgency to succeed. After rejection letter after rejection letter, Meg finally received an acceptance letter. She was overjoyed only to find out that the school had rejected her request for financial help. She was quite dismayed but still pushed forward. Finally she graduated, extremely in debt, but confident that she would be able to find work now; after all, she figured