Christina Hagan is an Ohio lawmaker who says students need to understand that attending college is not an entitlement. Last year, she was appointed to fill a seat once occupied by her father in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Ms. Hagan, 23, is also a college student.
She will graduate shortly from Malone University, an evangelical college in Canton, Ohio, with more than $65,000 in student debt (among her loans is one from a farm lender; she had to plant a garden to become eligible). Though she makes $60,000 a year as a state representative, she plans to begin waiting tables in the next few weeks at Don Pancho’s, a Mexican restaurant in Alliance, Ohio, to help pay down her student loans and credit cards. She pays about $1,000 a month.
“I placed a priority on a Christian education and I didn’t think about the debt,” said Ms. Hagan, who says she takes responsibility for her debt and others should do the same. “I need my generation to understand that nothing is free.”
She was appointed to Daddy's old seat--and its plum $60K/year--and she's lecturing others on entitlement?
Another good WTF is this article from The Chronicle about grad students and Ph.D's in humanities not being able to find work. True it's a sign of the pisspoor state of academia in this country because in my opinion the humanities are just as important to society as STEM. However, when considering which major is best fitting, it helps to focus on the ones that aren't so specific and niche as medieval-history.
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