Poor College Kids

You would THINK I'd be more concerned about the economy.  It'd be the mature thing to do.  All of our parents' jobs are at stake, you know?  But it's so hard to care about things beyond tuition when you're in the real-world buffer that is college.

Every time I see an article in our campus newspaper about the economy, it always seems to include a cheerful quote by some higher-up saying that IU will not be TOO affected by the crappy economy.  That should make me feel pretty good, I guess.  Right now, it's all abstract money.  Loans to be paid off when I actually HAVE money.  To semi-quote "How I Met Your Mother," that's a problem I'm going to let Future-Michelle deal with.

Maybe that's why I've been so lazy about blogging.  Want to know a secret, boys and girls?  I despise politics.  And yet I can't force myself to go a day without discussing these kinds of things.

For example, something that DOES affect me in a fairly direct way is the cost of room and board here.  All the dorms here have gone up in price by about $400 per year.  Boo.  No good.

I'm going to be a little critical of Obama here for a minute, so fellow Democrats, try to bear with me.  I really had high hopes that he would make lowering the ridiculous cost of higher education a priority.  But so far, it hasn't been, really.  I don't need a check!  I don't need a rebate!  Why can't we heal the problem at its source, and just TRY to make college less expensive?  People would be getting better jobs, spending more money, living comfortable lifestyles, and be better educated.

I'm dropping the "Michael Savage" rant.  Not because I "don't have anything to come back with," but because I'm exhausted with it.  I can be a Democrat and not support every kind of social freedom.  I never said I was going to align PERFECTLY with the left.  I don't support obscenity like Michael Savage.  Whether it really IS slander (which I'm sticking to) or merely hate-speech, I don't think the man should be paid to puke his hateful guts out over the radio.  End of story.

Back to the economy, though, we've still got Obama campaigning for his Bill.  I know Ashley thinks it's dumb that HE campaigns while IN office, but hey.  He was damn good at it the first time around, so maybe that's just his method.  But if he says anything along the lines of, "We need to act swiftly" one more time, my ears might bleed.  I'm tired of all the writing, and voting, and revising, and re-writing.  That's certainly not the "swift action" Obama's been calling for.  But, it's a little bit of everyone's fault, really.

Woo!  My radiator is fixed!  I'm going to enjoy it.  That's all!