17. September 2009 by student.

Ok, so we have seen some posts about drunk driving, which we all know is stupid, dumb, can kill you, can kill others and will break your mothers heart.  We see comercials on it every day, on TV, the news all over the place.  They are cracking down!  ok, that is great, get those bastards.  But, We live in a college town.  There will be drinking and if you deny that  your are nuts.  So, WHY DOES A TAXI COST YOU $50.00 ROUND TRIP!  This is insane. 

You want to go out and have fun with your friends.  It Friday, you go the the local bar, you have some drinks.  That costs you 20 bucks or so.  Then you want to get home and another $40.00.  So lets see, I have no money left so its either walk six miles (due to everything in Estero and Fort Myers is miles apart) or you get behind the wheel becuase “I am not thank drunk.”  So, with all this drunk driving stuff happening why are they not taking some of this  ANTI DUI adverstisement money and sending around freaking taxi cabs.  I would rather see a taxi service advertising its cheap rates for college kids than a ”don’t drive drunk” commercial with a guys motorcycle helmet filled with beer. Or at least lowering the damn taxi rates.  Even if you want to do the responsiable thing its costs an arm and a leg!  It drives me crazy when the solution to stopping this probelm is simply money, not decision making, not morals or ethics opr anything it is simply that if a taxi coast 5 bucks to get home drunk driving would be cut by 75 percent.  There is no doubt this would help.  

So the other side of the argument.  Well by doing this we are encouraging teen drinking.  Dumb.  Think about it.  WE ARE COLLEGE KIDS! If you did not drink in college you spent most of your days locked in your closet dorm room.  Also, the average college students age at FGCU is 23!  Ummmm, last time I checked you are allowed to drink at age 23.  Why not help the problem.  What is the most valuable thing in the world.  Your life right?  The lives of your loved ones?  Then why makes taxi fairs cost more than going out at night. 

 Just to prove this, a Taxi to club Ultra in Naples round trip to Estero.  70 bucks.  What ramen noodle eating college student can afford that?  It’s just so easy yet goes unoticed.  The city is more worried about busting everyone then helping them.  How about the next DUI driving incident that happens, all the money it cost for them to go to court, AA classes and community service, use it to help!  Make there community service driving a free taxi!  How much does is cost to run a DUI checkpoint.  I am sure thousands of dollars.  Donate that to a taxi service and make fair cheaper!   

I just ask that something is done because it is such a serious issue and no one seems make a logical way to solve other than “Well, dont go out and drink then drive.”  Thats easier said than done which has been proven by many who will have that on their record for the rest of thier lives.     

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17. September 2009 by student.

So, we are in college.  We being the students of the university.  We are the top now, but some who did not go to college are frowd upon by society.  Why?  Due to the fact they are under achievers right?  Wrong.  What is college?  How many of us will remeber what we learned in even our latest year of school.  I do belive in education to the fullest, but in some classes I focus more on how to beat the system than trying to learn the subject.  I do belive school has made me a better person in the longrun.  Not because I learned more from taking statistics, or spa management, but for the fact it made me learn how to become a worker.  It has allowed me to learn to manage my time and learn how to work.  For this I will be forever greatful, BUT, don’t you feel if we learned how to do this while learning about our careers or the real world help? 

For example, how about a class on how to learn baout using credit cards?  How many college student are in debt due to the simple thing of swiping plastic?  Don’t get me wrong, acounting is one thing, but do you think if you took an accounting class you could step in and keep the books for a million dollar company?  Hell no.  You would have to spend years to learn their system in and out.  Just because you know that assets equal liabalities blah blah blah you would be up creek with no paddle if you had no to train you.  So why not start the training now?  How about itstead of me learning that alligators are fiesty due to their enlarged medulaoblagata that I learn how to operate a 12 month budget? 

The oposing argument is that we are learning to learn in school.  To comprehend the world.  This is true but I am 22 now, and I still am learning somethings I know I will forget after I am tested on them.  The things I won’t forget are the things that allow me to put food on the table, drive a car, and make a living.  Why do you think students drop out?  They are lazy?  They are stupid?  No!  They just do not want to do four years of work that has nothing to do with thier real lives. Every person has to survive in the world and college and school become a NO choice option. 

I feel that people of the world are so use to this that it will never change.  I cansay some of college is designed to help you in the real world because this is true.  But if I could graduate with those credits are still get a degree I would only need 60 credit hours not 120. 

In the end, yes I feel college is needed, but, it should not be a do or die to be succesful.  It is to expensive and a 4 year process where 50 percent is fluff.  Bring on the things that allow me to grow and become better at what I want to do. 

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