Disclaimer: The interviews that were conducted were rephrased and added into this piece to keep the personal experiences of these students separate from their names. Therefore, none of the names of those interviewed will be in the actual paper but they will be sourced for the insight to the subculture that they were able to provide.
The Past, the Present, and the Future walk into a bar…
They sat down at the bar of the coffee shop and sipped their usual drinks. The Past drank black coffee while trying to fit in with the other college students inside of this overly colorful coffee shop. This was just another round of school and yet it felt so different than the years prior that he had attended the same school. The Present held a sugary frappuccino …show more content…
Starting off by saying that the biggest concern is in the cost of school, some of us have scholarships that cover almost everything, but leave a large enough gap to need loans still even with the help of the school and the governments. The next thing he was quick to say is that college is stressful in the sense that this costs so much money and this is the most money that he had ever spent and he was worried about how he was going to finance everything. Some of us have the loans and aid but a lot of us don’t simply because of the fact that filing for aid can just cause more stress as he would have to call his parents and give them the information for the website just so that he could even try to think about getting aid. He then reminded the group that some teachers remind students to relax and enjoy themselves even though it can be nearly impossible in the world of due dates and deadlines. He told the other students that him and his friends don’t relax in the same ways at all, but that the campus is flexible enough for all of them to have something that they can do and not have to worry about being bored. Since Millennials seem to be synonymous with lazy, that is another thing hitting us in the back of the head while we stare down bills. We are trying to prove the older generations wrong with the fact that we have motivation and goals that are awesome and ground breaking but people seem to only see the small portion of us that are lazy. So a belief that past students have about us is that we are lazy and want to get by in life by following the easy path that is worn and well travelled. That is not true in the slightest and that stereotype hurts the Millennials image. “Asma Khalid has reported, about two-thirds of Millennials ages 25 to 32 lack a bachelor 's degree. Millennial college graduates in this same age group earn about $17,500 more annually than those with only a
The Past, the Present, and the Future walk into a bar…
They sat down at the bar of the coffee shop and sipped their usual drinks. The Past drank black coffee while trying to fit in with the other college students inside of this overly colorful coffee shop. This was just another round of school and yet it felt so different than the years prior that he had attended the same school. The Present held a sugary frappuccino …show more content…
Starting off by saying that the biggest concern is in the cost of school, some of us have scholarships that cover almost everything, but leave a large enough gap to need loans still even with the help of the school and the governments. The next thing he was quick to say is that college is stressful in the sense that this costs so much money and this is the most money that he had ever spent and he was worried about how he was going to finance everything. Some of us have the loans and aid but a lot of us don’t simply because of the fact that filing for aid can just cause more stress as he would have to call his parents and give them the information for the website just so that he could even try to think about getting aid. He then reminded the group that some teachers remind students to relax and enjoy themselves even though it can be nearly impossible in the world of due dates and deadlines. He told the other students that him and his friends don’t relax in the same ways at all, but that the campus is flexible enough for all of them to have something that they can do and not have to worry about being bored. Since Millennials seem to be synonymous with lazy, that is another thing hitting us in the back of the head while we stare down bills. We are trying to prove the older generations wrong with the fact that we have motivation and goals that are awesome and ground breaking but people seem to only see the small portion of us that are lazy. So a belief that past students have about us is that we are lazy and want to get by in life by following the easy path that is worn and well travelled. That is not true in the slightest and that stereotype hurts the Millennials image. “Asma Khalid has reported, about two-thirds of Millennials ages 25 to 32 lack a bachelor 's degree. Millennial college graduates in this same age group earn about $17,500 more annually than those with only a