You're sitting on a couch, watching TV....

After reading "A Different World" then....Everest College Now" I felt I prompt to write. This isn't a response; it's more my take on the education or lack their of our youth.

A Different World is high on my list of favorite television shows. Although I wasn't able to watch this show during its hey day since I was born in 88, I developed an appreciation for flip up glasses and a snobby Southern Belle through reruns. I think I gravitated to this show so much due to the positive imagery of Black people. I also believe I so desperately hoped this is what my college experience would be like. Diggame took the words right out my mouth :Though I didn’t attend a HBCU and attended a PWU (Predominately White University) I would be remised to not take credence in the effectA Different World had on my outlook on college and the black college experience. There was a sense of pride the show invigorated in book knowledge but instilling a sense of knowledge of self"

Luckily for me, the importance of education was something that my mother bestowed upon me from a very young age. I remember spending many a Saturday at the neighborhood library with my stack of books. It's those Lazy Saturdays that I miss. But I digress, I think times have changed. The children that are supposed to be our future don't have a love for reading because many of them are reading below their grade level. Those same children are now walking a different journey than I. Unlike me, some of them do not have opportunities to a Big Ten education. Instead they get Everest College Commercials. I have chuckled at these commercials many times not thinking about their true purpose: I mean the whole pitch of ” you aint doing shit come on over to Everest get loans and spend all your money in hopes of making more in the long run” is not the flyest image to show someone to further their education.

With all my heart I would like to believe that Everest College is about the right but with its gimmicks, it seems to be another way for people eager to make a change to waste money. I will be the first to say that education is important and that it will open so many doors. I just am unsure if we should leave the entry to those doors in the hands of Everest College....