Carissa Simon

  Parties, welcome back bashments, leading the Greek sororities and fraternities, ice cream socials, basketball games, and more are just some of the typical highlights that highlight the social aspect of one's college experience. When we look beyond the hype and into the hidden gray areas of what college is truly about, we see depth, declining enrollment rates, a lack of funding, high tuition costs, and more. We tend to emphasize the benefits of what makes college enjoyable, but we fail to recognize the things that we will carry with us in our back pockets that are more fundamentally establishing a future career than social activities. The costs that are heavily emphasized in order to create this social life of colleges are not the same intentions that are for education. Andrew Hacker and Claudia's Dreifus, the authors, certainly highlight key points within colleges that are more about money than education. Tuition charges have more than doubled in recent generations, and we c...