Education and Freedoms
Studying Should Be Free
My two cents. Literally and figuratively.
There are few things I don’t like about Canada’s educational system and the way Canadian universities go about things.
Okay that’s a lie. There are a lot, and it’d probably take me a year and a half, half the duration of my undergraduate degree, to list all of them, but one thing bothers me in particular.
Studying is expensive. Not just here in Canada. Everywhere. Except for Germany I guess.
To put things into perspective, as a student you have to pay tens of thousands to live on campus, tens of thousands if you want a meal plan (which I strongly advise against) hundreds in incidental fees each semester, hundreds in fees that they won’t explain, hundreds for studying material, and tens of thousands for tuition — depending on who you are.
We can’t afford any of that, so people like me live at home and drive for an hour and a half to my campus each morning, and back in the night, or drive to the nearest subway station which is forty-five minutes away, and take the subway when the lines are working.
International students in my university pay sixty thousand each year, which adds up to just under a quarter of a million dollars, for a four-year…
