What's Next for Me...

By Angel Wright

Senior year of highschool is so pressure filled. Its not the part about getting into college

that I am worried about, its the part where I have to pay up more money than I have ever seen 

in my life. College is so expensive and one thing that family members keep trying to shove down 

my throat is that I don’t want to go into debt. That is something I obviously want to avoid, but it 

seems so inevitable

. You have to be the best of the best to get the scholarships that help you avoid having 

to pay a single dime when it comes to tuition and board. Along with being the best of the best is 

a financial need that has to be proven my financial documents. If your parents make too much 

money to qualify for the financial based scholarships, but not enough to actually provide any 

contribution a person is pretty much on their own at that point.

So when you’re not the best of the best and you have the weighing pressure of how do 

I pay for a decent education a few ideas begin to leak into one’s mind. One idea is spend your 

last high school career mindlessly filling out applications and trying to claim the money that so 

many financial advisors say is out there. There are also financial advisors who say that is not 

the right way to go and to only consider a select few. Money seems unreachable and debt looks 

likes its the only option.

Education comes at a very high price and so many people out there want it. To compete 

with the best of the best is tiresome. A car payment is what the debt of college can gain you, 

only you don’t get the car in the end. Instead you get a degree, and that if you have no prior 

work experience in the field you’re searching for it can become nearly impossible to get hired.

It is a very time consuming thought of having to pay for college. Yet, I often wander into 

thought of the possibilities that can happen once I go through the college experience. So many 

amazing things can be learned and introduced to me. Passions and inspirations may be thrown 

my way in a storm that would not be possible without that car payment of debt. I hate to think 

that money is the only thing holding me back from those experiences.

So whether I like it or not, I’ll sit day after day listening to the educated financial advisors 

searching for a way to pay for college. I think searching for money to go to school is closest I’ll 

get to understanding not having primary and secondary school readily available for children in 

other countries. Though I know in my search, I ‘ll probably never fully understand it.