What's The Cost of an Education?
On July 20, 2021, I nearly died trying to pay my tuition to Florida International University (FIU). A bit dramatic, but here's what went down. Last year in the summer of 2020, I found out about a dual masters degree program between FIU and Miami Ad School (M.AD) where one can earn an MS in Communications and a MS in Copywriting. There's a ton of work we must do, and I've experienced passive aggressive acts by classmates that I don't respect at all, and I'm to the point now where I'm asking is this worth it? In May of this year, after the school received $6,000 worth of student loan money, I was given a bill for $1,334 and some change. It's the remaining balance for summer courses towards the degrees, and they [FIU] said if I didn't pay it then I couldn't come back on campus or can even be dropped from the program all together. I sent the director of the program an email stating why America was falling behind in education because of the rising costs ...