I know these things don't really fall under my category of topics but they are both things that really effect me.
1. Tuition
Obvi I'm a starving college student, but I've been blessed to have parents who spend every dime they can spare on my education. I'm really lucky because I know a lot of people who have had to drop out of school because of tuition hikes. But this quarter its effecting me. Hopefully things are just being miscommunicated but if not my tuition doubled. This is something I cannot handle. I'm so close to being finished. I'm in debt as it is, which I didn't want to happen when I was graduating but sometimes we sacrifice things for incredible experiences. I don't regret for a second taking out a loan to study abroad but I am in debt now, end of story. It sucks to be 2 quarters away from my piece of paper that says I went to ucla. The only thing I can think of is to transfer and that would suck...to have to transfer when I am this close...it's really unfair.
I was just at a fundraiser for a preschool last night. These are the wealthiest parents in Los Angeles and these parents were so stingy with their money it made me sick. They spent more on their hair and their outfits for that night than they were willing to donate to their children's education. It sucks that my parents are so giving and they have nothing left to give and these parents wont even buy a fucking quilt with their kids faces on it to help their kids education. What is wrong with these people?! Did money make them so ungrateful, so selfish? Its disgusting. There is just no excuse, you have the money to further you childrens education and you don't because, oh the economy is really bad right now, maybe next year we will bid, or well they just raised the tuition of the school so we don't really need to donate. Its just disgusting. I wish I could easily afford my college, but I can't and its so unfair seeing and watching it happen.
2. I'm kinda to exhausted to even write about this right now, but I'll give it a shot. Racism. I can't believe its 2012 and this is still an issue. Why? why does the color of my skin matter? I don't understand it, I understand older people who grew up with different 'ideals' but this is my generation and there are still hate crimes going on in one of the best universities in California!? I remember being little, trying to wash the 'dirt' off of my skin because I was best friends with all the little white girls, and my mom came in and saw me and told me "hunny, thats your skin, you can't wash it off." Why do they hate us for something that is out of our control? I didn't make my skin this color and even if I did I'd rather be brown and beautiful than anything else. I love who I am and I had to face the racist views of my father growing up and I'm not the most Mexican of girls but I am Mexican and now I can say I'm proud to be what I am. But I wasn't always proud, in fact I was almost always resentful. I think its because I don't understand why people hate people of color. Do we still need a scapegoat? Is it because our economy is failing, because America the young nation isn't doing so well, lets blame the mexicans, or the blacks or the asians or even the jews...shouldn't we be trying to prove everyone wrong, and banding together to beat the failing economy. I know easier said than done. But I think by allowing racism to still occur we are just being that silly young nation who doesn't know any better. Get you're shit together some of us are brown, some of us are gay/lesbian/transgender, some of us have different religions get over it, we aren't hurting you so why do you continue to hurt us?
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