Social Issues That Apply To Students
There are many social issues that students such as myself are faced with on a daily basis. Some of them cause more harm and are more problematic than others, and I believe there are some that directly affect me. The distressing loss of full-time, well-paying jobs is a concern of mine because I am going to school trying to get that dream job and it is discouraging seeing adults with bachelor and master degrees struggling to obtain a full time job. Now a days adults are going after the part time jobs because employers don’t want to support the full time employee with benefits, health care, annual leave, and so on. The ones that should be going after the part time jobs are the teenagers and its scary to see when us students are spending all of our money to get this degree and it doesn’t even guarantee a job.
This leads me into my next social issue that I find important to young adults in college. Tuition and student loans can be expensive and when we borrow tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from our government it is a very scary feeling knowing that we have to pay that back. I am one that has always either had the money to buy something or I didn’t. And if I didn’t have the money then I didn’t get it. School was no different for me. I have worked incredibly hard for my money and I was able to pay for school out of my own pocket which makes it very rewarding but I also puts a lot of pressure on myself to do well. Other students may not have the same opportunity as me to work full time to pay for something such as college, which is why they turn to student loans. On December 31, 2012 collective student loans amount to 966 billon. Students will spend sometimes the next thirty years paying back student loans before they are debt free from school.
The third social issue I would like to discuss is drinking and driving. Being in college there are some great times to be had. There are also those horror stories of students drinking too much on a Friday night and then getting behind the wheel. It may seem like the most convenient way to get home at the time but they are putting everyone’s lives at risk. I think the teachings of what can happen that are taught in high schools really stick with you through your younger adult days and into your adulthood. Parents of the child have a lot of influence as well by either enforcing this law in a good manner or not. If the parents scare their child with the fact of how much trouble they are going to be getting in if they drink then the student is going to be more inclined to drive home so they don’t have to explain anything to their parents. My parents always told me that if you drink and call me for a ride I would not be in trouble because they would be very happy that I am safe with them in their car. I knew not to ever abuse this and I carried it on into my early adulthood of being able to legally drink but still don’t drive if I do drink a little bit.
