Education is so Expensive and so is the Food

This encounter is not going to surprise anyone. College is expensive; it’s that simple. Not just tuition, which is over 9,000 dollars a year, which is not high compared to many institutions, which are north of 30k, 50k, and even 80k per year. The fees, food, and housing add up the quickest. There is a reason that there is a teacher shortage; you do not get paid enough and have to go through a lot of expensive college to get there. “Graduates with student loan balances tended to stay away from public service careers such as education, public administration, and social welfare and chose higher-paying jobs (Rothstein and Rouse 2011).” (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dr5jJqKnQY60i7vTygwtthRd0iQ3nfq3/view) There is a reason I am going into engineering. Even though I am interested in teaching, I can apply that in other ways.

If you go to NC State, you know about our C-stores; I happen to live close to the bragaw one. Now you might think, wow, that is great; you can get snacks late when you want to study, or you can get a drink or maybe a meal to heat up in the microwave. Well, that would be wrong; everything in the C-store is at least 2.5 times more expensive than at a grocery store. So I walk in there every once in a while when I am hungry and immediately get reminded to leave by the absurd prices.

Also, why is the food in Fountain dining hall consistently so mediocre, as each student is paying about 16 dollars per day for food at the dining halls? If you are making food in large quantities as they are, that is not very expensive, so why can there not be more effort put into the food at the fountain Case dining hall can put the effort in.

Are colleges taking advantage of students by upping prices and lowering quality when it comes to food? Also, why is it so difficult to find good healthy food on campus?