Let's Dance shall we?

A Breakthrough with new education, allowing for the masses to become educated at a college scall should open the door for change should it not? There should be more people with an education but there's not, in fact, there is a low amount of people enrolling in colleges. Why is this you may ask, well in my opionion there are a multitude of reasons but I will just inform you through my own personal experience.

I graduated high school in 2019, yes I'm still a child at 21; but nevertheless, I left high school before Covid-19 broke out. I jumped right into the world of Academia with the plan to get my biochemistry degree. I was and still am paying for all of it. But, I knew absolutely nothing about college before I entered I had no idea what classes to take or who to email.

My orientation day rolled around in June. I was placed up with other new freshman and transfer students; they split everyone up from their parents (my family did not come) and gave us a "tour" of the campus. Unfortunately, that tour was us walking through two of the updated school buildings that I have now learned are not used for classes. They shmooze you with the style of the buildings then fed us sad, sad spaghetti and walked us to a computer lab telling us we needed to sign up for fall classes. There were no advisor appointments in fact there were no advisors. Only a handful of students getting paid ten dollars to walk us around and make us sign up for classes. Little did I know I was being forced to sign over 30,000$ away.

Nevertheless, fall roles around I have my books I paid for the train pass I drive to my first class, Canceled; the teacher just didn't feel like teaching that day in fact they chose 60 days to cancel the class without warning. My next class was engaging and fun but yet felt empty there were no purpose within the class there was an expectation to do well but the teachers do not even want to be there. How can you expect to learn if the teachers don't honestly care. To make the semester even worse I took my math class at a different college because mine refused to accept my AP credit.

Now if you're like me at this point you're just like well its a bad semester the next one will be better, it never did get better in fact I have met the most racist and worst professors of my life in the following professors. I do not believe there is a way around this issue as most freshmen face it, in fact, I call this situation the freshman frolic because you are too invested in the idea of it getting better that you dont even notice the flowers around you smell like trash. Right after the freshman frolic you can expect yourself in the Sophmore Salsa, your taking more classes tired and will be playing a will they won't they game with your teachers, the Sophmore year is when the teachers not only get more judgmental but discriminative, i'v seen sports players given A's when they never did the project and bi-racial people given D's for missing a comma. Following that comes Junior Jazz, they will try and build you up during this year and only now will you really get a bunch of emails sharing a bunch of school resources and free items that you can get but for some reason they never told you before? And finally Senior swing, you will be running from place to place to finally get everything approved one person's grudge can ruin you

Now I am a senior and have seen a million issues with the academic system. Everyone wants to change the elementary schools but no one ever thinks about the colleges. One the money needs to be changed no not free but changed, two college teachers should be put through mental health assessments and should be required to teach k-12 for a few years and then required to sit through other college classes not for credit before being allowed to teach. There needs to be a yearly assessment of the teachers and not one that can be paid off. Ivy League colleges have to go it's 2022 for god's sake get the rich nepotism out of the question. And this idea of if you try you can succeed needs to be repealed until the professors know what trying means.

And yes my story is just an issue at my school but yet no one is talking if we all raise our issues up maybe just maybe we can make college better and more accessible rather than putting it on a pedestal.