Justin's Super Sweet WRIT-340 Blog

Many students in university, especially older students, leave college because of many reasons. Some of these reasons include; college taking too long, inability to pass certain GE classes, financial burden, or family circumstances. In a world where we claim higher education is so important, we make it exceedingly difficult for those with real responsibilities, difficult circumstances, and little time to get their life started to get their degree and make an impact in the world. So we thought of a way to fix that. Introducing Matthew University, an accredited, non-profit university aiming to solve this problem.  Matthew University functions like a trade school: your only focus is on career-relevant skills. No GE requirement. No foreign language requirement. No four-year grind. Fifty majors. 12-24 months. Start the rest of your life. Our model is based on you, the student. We want you to succeed, and we want you to graduate as quickly as possible and begin making your impact, at a co...

 I honestly don't know anything about what my first step into changing the world could be. If I'm honest, when I think about what I wanna change, I can only think of somewhat selfish thoughts, in the sense that the way I would "better the world" is in ways that benefit me. I suppose I don't feel I'm in any position to make any large change in the world. I feel if I'm going to make any change at all, it would be in changing the lives of those close to me. I feel that's the most realistic way that I would create change. My family and I have gone through the wringer if I'm going to be honest. Without getting into it too much, things have been rough for a long time, and I went to USC for the sole purpose of changing that. That's been my goal ever since I got here. I never went to parties or did anything stupid to risk losing my chance here because this has been so important to me. All I've wanted is to put myself in a position to help my family...

 As the semester comes to a close, all I can think about is the future. Right this moment, I'm thinking of these last two classes I need to take to truly graduate. I'm thinking of where I'm going to take them, whether it be here or back home, or potentially somewhere else. I'm thinking of how I'm going to manage working and paying off loans while going to class at the same time. I'm wondering if it's truly worth it to even finish those last two classes considering the cost.  But I also think about what happens after that. I expect to spend the next year or so of my life in Bakersfield, which I've called home forever. But after that, I'm not so sure. The goal is to move up to the bigger markets and to do that, I need to leave home. And with that distance comes more questions. What happens then? Where am I going to go next? Will this really get me what I want? Is what I want, really what I want? I say it is now, but how do I know for sure that in ten y...