I have been to two community colleges and a four-year college in my undergraduate journey. I spent three years at Foothill College in Los Altos, CA; one and a half years at Harold Washington College in Chicago, and now I am studying Film at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. My journey hasn’t been easy — my total credits from both community colleges placed me as a lower junior at my current college, which was troubling. It represents the incoherence in our higher education system.
But college should not be this way.
The overall price and importance of attending college deserves a deeper and harder look for every student body in America. As someone who wants to work in the film industry as an actor and a filmmaker, a degree is optional. Yet, too many students are content with their bubbles on campus, away from the reality outside.