Education Is Important, But Can We All Afford It?

      I am currently a part time college student and a lot of people my age are either full time or part time college students. I graduated high school in 2010 and immediately started college and of course college has never been cheap but it was cheaper than today. We need to take in consideration that every year college is just getting more expensive to afford. Lets just imagine that when we have children and it gets time for them to go to college it will be maybe triple as much as what we are paying now. a lot of us does not go to college not because we don't want to but we cannot afford to pay for our education. Before it was easy to get a job with a high school diploma now days we need to have some type of college to be at least okay or well qualified. A couple of months ago my mom was saying that her boss had to go back to college to get a Masters degree because her Bachelors was not enough in order for her to keep her job. Lets keep in mind that she already had her job before that was a requirement for the position in her company imagine for us that we still working inn our Bachelors what luck are we going to have and it does not stop there what are our kids going to need in order to have a decent life.
      If we take a look at The White House website and click in education it has some ideas of how to reduce the cost of education. Its very interesting that it mentions how people being rank over middle class have plans on continuing a higher education than the less class. Its obvious why is easier for them to decide on going to college and that is because they don't have to worry about money wise when we have students with less resources that are not to sure about keep going. Lets keep in mind that is not because they don't want to continue with an education but its because they don't have a way of going, yes there's also scholarships that they can get but the question is, Is that enough? There are a lot of excellent students that don't get what they deserve in scholarships and some times that stops them from going to school because they have to work full time to try to pay for their education. I guess the question is What can we do to help the situation? One of President Obama solutions is lowering the interest in the school loans that students take out, in my honest opinion I don't think that will be enough because college will keep going on. One thing that I do know is that we need to do something soon before the situation gets worse and it affect our economy even more.

Legalization of Marijuana By James Middlebrooks

     After reading my classmate's James Middlebrooks blog I found some very informative and interesting facts about the legalization of marijuana. Before reading his article I was completely against legalization of marijuana and now I started to doubt a little bit about my decision. It's not to the point that I have changed my mind about the subject but enough to question myself. By the article making me question my though about this issue to me it means that he did he's homework and research about this assignment.
     Although James supports this law to legalize it he also provides how it could it affects us which in opinion I thought it was great. He did a good letting us know what he was going to write about, the solution of how can it benefits us but also how can it affects us. Also mentioning where he got he's information from and he also provide us with examples to back-up he's decision on legalizing marijuana. Overall James completed the assignment letting us about an issue, giving us details and a way to resolve it not counting with me learning something new.