The other day I read an Online Journal of one of my friends. She was recently writing about students, and the way how adults call these “the best days of our lives”. But when you do look at it these days are mostly just money and study obsessed.

I’ve been a student for almost two years now and I can see where people are coming from. My brother was a student for four years and he had to work his own way for food/electricity/internet however my parents paid the rent. We were lucky compared to some students of whom have to pay for their own rent AND food/electricity/internet. I don’t see how some people can manage to work about two to three jobs and study at the same time, I’ve seen first hand how it effects any students studying plan.
I myself have applied for a student loan from the government, however how on earth do they expect me to live on £92 a month where I don’t receive any money from my parents apart from rent and I am unemployed. They base these loans on parents income and estimate how much our parents are meant to give to us but how do they KNOW that they are actually going to lend us that amount. Roughly around 40% of students of whom do not receive money from their parents are meant to receive at least over £2500 from them. In which cases they don’t receive any money at all so therefore they don’t get a big enough loan or bursary from the government.



So as far as “the best days of our lives” goes, it’s just a saying that the elder generation speak of their time. A lot of students actually come out of education into a job that doesn’t even have anything to do with their last 3-4 years of studying. This has me thinking that is it right that at the age of about 13-15 that we choose our career that we want to partake for the rest of our lives? If in the end we just leave our education to go into a job we have no knowledge or interest in from the past 5-8 years.