The Price of Education or How'd I Get So Stoopid?

i am constantly amazed by the kinds of things one needs a college degree to do. let's look at some SHOCKING statistics, shall we?

we shall.

so, my education. i started at pitzer college. at the time, it was approximately $34,000 a year to go there. i went there for a year and a half. cha-CHING! i'll leave out my semester at long beach city college, because it was a negligible amount, perhaps two hundred bucks? yeah. well, then along comes boston college. to go from being a sage hen:




to being an eagle:


is even MORE pricey. for a commuting student, bc costs approximately $35, 284 a year, before the cost of insurance or books. (i was there for three excruciatingly long years.)

granted, eagles are a bit more majestic than sage hens, but still. that's a lot of money. and what does that amount of money get me?

an entry level position at a non-profit.

basically (to borrow leah's favorite term), i needed a $156,852 education (BEFORE books, apt, insurance, etc.) in order to be qualified to do the following:

gluing pieces of paper to the backs of postcards

putting said postcards, along with other materials, into folders

putting stickers on folders

printing obscene amounts of materials onto non-recycled paper

mailing ridiculous amounts of materials to places around the country at no cost to them

getting into passive-aggressive email wars

and, sometimes as is the case, blogging

i GET to do all of this because i have a piece of paper (that i haven't even framed, and that has neither of my two minors nor my major on it) that says i was stupid enough to spend more than 100 grand on my education, even though i don't make even a third of that per year.

brilliant.