“By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job”(mark Pokan). College debt has become a big problem with many students leaving with tens of thousands of dollars in debt, many have returned from pursuing their dream jobs. My dream job has always been to become an engineer. This dream of mine may never come to fruition due to the fact that college is so expensive. This scholarship will greatly decrease the financial stress that I and many other students feel. Iowa state university instate tuition is 20,000 dollars a year, and according to debt.org most students leave college with $37,172. It my goal to avoid having this as much
