<p>I really should stop reading articles about financial aid and low income students, since it always make my blood boil.
I love it that I came to this country as a First Generation expecting to meet the fabled
" American Dream." What a complete lie that American Dream is. Even though I placed in the top of my class, and belonging to a reasonably just-getting-by Working Class family, I still could not see or make up why America in itself have laws that give so much to the low income, and next to nothing to the middle class. I love it that I would work 20+ hrs in the local grocery store, my parents breaking theirs backs working 12hrs shifts for 6 days in a Potato Chip Factory just to pay my college bill to a STATE school ( which refuse to give me ANY aid at all, but loans ). While I will see a woman swipe her EBT card, take out her WIC checks and be dolled in Coach Bags, Channel Glasses, UGG Boots, Luis Vutton Clothes, and her daughter going to college on a free ride because she was “poor.” I find it a major flaw that those who worked so hard, earned money to attend college could get punished. Ugh, it disgust me so much just thinking how I ended up getting punished because my parents and I worked hard our entire life.</p>