I just finished my junior year in college majoring in Speech Language Pathology, but I'm transferring closer to home and choosing a different major (nursing or something in the health care field). I got good grades but to be a practicing Speech Pathologist, you need a masters degree, and I am not putting myself into horrible debt in graduate school.
Plus I was getting into trouble in Florida and my mom wanted me closer to home, and I just never got along with the other girls in my SLP classes. A lot of them were the "cares more about mocha frappachinos and Jersey Shore" types who weren't as serious about things since Florida basically pays for all or most of your tuition and even if they don't, tuition is only like $5000 a year. They have this scholarship program called Bright Futures that pays for 3/4 of your tuition if you had a 3.0 in high school, and all your tuition if you had a 3.5 gpa I think. Theres some other requirements but almost everyone I knew at my college had it. You have to be a FL resident to get it, though, and I am not.
Even so, my tuition was cheaper as an out of state student here than it would have been as an in state student at UNH. But my college just raised out of state tuition like crazy for this year, which is another reason i'm leaving...
I remember people who had Bright Futures freaking out earlier this year because there was news that a new law *might* be passed that would require Bright Future recipients to stay in FL for at least a year after graduating or they would have to refund all of their award. So what? You should be grateful that you don't have crushing student loan debt like other graduates everywhere else in the country. Go complain about having to live in Florida for one more year to some guy who is $80,000 in debt and works at Subway because no one else is hiring.
sorry i'm rambling, i'm just so bored.
