Privatization of higher education is only going to mess up someone's future in the long run. They are taking money from their educational programs and spending it on advertising and paying their numerous staff members. I think privatization is all a money scheme. Once public establishments of higher education start charging mass amounts of tuition, privatization will take over and use those high tuition prices for their own good. College is supposed to better a person's education, not leave them financially unstable, with nothing to show for it except for equiste television commercials that they can watch from their low-income housing they needed to live in order to afford higher education. Maybe that is a little harsh, but it is the truth.

I realized my topic of just drinking in college and debt accumulation might be a little difficult to do, so I think I am going to change it to more of "the life after college" type of essay. I want to show how choices made during college, and choices made before college can alter how much a person needs to pay back in loans once they graduate. I can work the issue of alcohol into there somewhere, but mainly talk about the struggle of paying back loans and financial aid. I liked the NY Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/business/college-costs-battled-a-paycheck-at-a-time.html) that was suggested because I think it ties a lot of my points together. One of the guys in the article says how he didn't have time to go out in college because of a part-time job. It will be easy to get more articles about horror stories of the "post-college" life, and I can incorporate various subtopics into this as well. I found another NY Times article about paying back college loans (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/education/12college.html) and when I searched the topic on google, there were a lot more articles, than when I searched for articles about drinking and college.

I want my paper to be about the correlation between alcohol use and the accumulation of debt that college students acquire. It boggles my mind that students who have so much debt accumulating after they graduate, do not have part time jobs. Instead, they spend the little money they do have on buying alcohol, and spend their time partying, rather than trying to put a small amount of money aside to begin a fund for paying back student loans. I am going to have some loans when I graduate, however, I have a part time job, and do not choose to spend my money on alcohol. Some college kids I know have literally twenty dollars to their name, go out partying every weekend, and just hope that once they graduate, they will automatically have a high-paying job that will allow them to pay back their loans. However, the world is not always that simple, and although they may be having fun partying and illegally consuming alcohol, the debt crisis is only getting worse. I am going to explain these issue while getting statistics and other factual information on alcohol use in places of higher education, and how it affects a student's finances.