Out of State Tuition is Bullshit

I'm going to community college this fall, actually in 38 days but after the two years of said community college . I'm Planning on going to University of Utah......but the only problem is that I live in Iowa. meaning its going to cost an extra 18,000 a year. Thats absurd, college is already expensive but this ridiculous.

Just because I wasn't born in the right state, dosent mean I should have to pay for it, Literally.  I would understand if it was like an extra 3,000-5,000 but 18,000. Say I want to get a masters. that would be  a extra 72,000 of college debt for the same education. The average U.S income is 50,500 and the extra debt would be 142% income for a year. thats great for a young person, who has no job and is away from home but hey Go F### yourself from Out of state of Tuition.

This really depresses me that I will have to fork over so much money to be the same as everyone else and its over a really stupid reason.  Were all U.S Citizens but I understand giving your instate kids a edge but do they need a 72,000 dollar edge? We should be embracing education for everyone and not shunning for people because they wasn't born in the right place.

#stopoutofstatetuition

Why semester tests are outdated and insulting

       We go to school for 18 weeks (per semester) and semester tests tell us that 3.6 of those weeks don't matter.  Semester tests are setup for you to fail. If in quarter 1 you get a 92%, quarter 2 you get a 91%, and on your semester test you get a 80% your final grade would be 89%.  Now, lets say, for example,  your test is a 100 questions, you missed 20 obscure questions,  is that fair that a few questions can be more important then the countless tests and homework assignments that you did in the previous 2 quarters.

     Semester tests are also an outdated system because of standard based grading is wave of the "future" and semester tests, I would argue that they don't work well together.


#stop the semester tests