Now More Than Ever Community College Summary

now more than ever: community college by Daniel wister talks about a woman named Miranda who finds out that community collegeis better for her than a big university. the story begins off with Miranda going 1500 miles away from the city where she grew up and having the dream of being the frist person to graduate from her family and even bigger dreams of becoming a successful professional one day. in the articale it states that Miranda wasn't particularly comfortable with being so far away from home right after high school. she felt awkward living with a roommate ahe had never met and she became increasingly homesick. mrandas family did not have enogh money tofly her home during vaction . one of the reasons Miranda felt that a four university
the article staes that she didn't want to waste money. another reason was that she had student loans to pay back so Miranda picked up a jonin order to help her pay for her added exepense. finally Miranda relied she was not intersyed her major after all. she noticed that sh ereally wanted to be in culinary arts and become a chef. but culinary arts was not offered at her scool.. she finally went home without a degreebut with tousnad of dollars to pay back. all her dreams had diappred the artival states why you should consider you options before committing to a four year college and how community colleges seem like a better alternative for frist two year of college education Miranda worked for over a year to pay off her students loan. she was still interested in a culiary degree but she didn't want tolaeave home so she heard about her local community college culiary arts progam. she looked up the tution it was 1200 a semater. another reason she choice community colleg was that they had flexable hours and wekkend classes. to her surpise he community college offered twice as much degrees as the other college. she had a little doubt that her techer weren't as good as the other but she was