Vanessa is Creating

October 25, 2011

jessfink:

alexds1:

isaia:

espritss-libress:

yourskin-and-bones:

espritss-libress:

senpaichan:

blackenedbutterfly:

stfuconservatives:

Unions are the reason you get paid a minimum wage at all
Taxes subsidize your moderately-priced, in-state public university
Wow, I wonder if you lived at home and had parents or guardians paying your living expenses so you could start saving for college?
95% of scholarships go to white people like you
Have fun looking for a job after college, blowing through all your savings, and finally realizing what it’s like to live in the real world. You are the 99%. You just don’t know it yet.

Did your parents ever feed you or pay for a single item of your clothing? You’re a leech. Now shut up, you hypocrite :)

I am a college senior who works when he can because his anxiety levels are so high that he cannot take on a second job to work “full time” or even more than once a week if that. My grandmother and mother have been helping me save for college since I was born, and many birthday and holiday gifts were savings bonds specifically for college so that I would be able to get through with as little debt as possible.
I chose an in-state university despite the fact that I am over-qualified because I did not want to have to take out loans and go in to debt at age sixteen when I was applying to my first university.
I got decent grades in high school, but received no non-required scholarships because of the area where I was zoned. I applied for over three hundred. The only help I received was the $2000 the state is technically required to give someone when they graduate early because allegedly that is the amount of money they spend on each student for one year in school.
I live in a cheap apartment because I cannot handle living in a female dorm. My father helps me pay for that while the savings helps pay for all of my tuition and classes. In exchange for this apartment I have gone months where I’ve struggled to get enough food, and one month ate almost nothing except the oatmeal I got from a church’s food bank. I do not have a new phone, new car, or a credit card in my name. If I had debt, it would not be due to “bad decisions” that I’ve made.
I do not expect, but have received handouts in life and am grateful for what I’ve been given by my parents and friends who help support me. I have my own savings that have been eaten in to by banks taking out money for whatever reason they damn well please. I put as much money in to my savings as possible so I can go to culinary school once I am finished with the next two semesters and I expect absolutely no help there, though I hope that I qualify for scholarships by that point.
tl;dr - This person is full of shit.

Self righteous asshole. “I did it! so can you!” fuck kids born in poverty or kids who can’t fucking get a job in this economy! they are just lazy good for nothings! hey! the white guy can do it, and so can you!

Are you fucking kidding me? majority of scholarships go to minorities, in fact they even have their own individual scholarships that white people can’t apply for.

Majority of scholarships go to minorities? are you sure about that? and whites don’t have their own individual scholarships? yes, and for the same reason we don’t have straight prides or white history month or affirmative action for men.

The commentary is helpful for those who don’t know

Wow, the vitriol against the OP pic is really annoying. Someone had a different life experience and has formed a differing opinion! They aren’t comfortable donning victim status just because life isn’t perfect and are trying their best to make do in an inherently flawed system (and evidently succeeding)! They made a poster! Attack them!
jfc

In my opinion the last sentence “I am not the 99%, and weather or not you are is YOUR decision.” Is what makes this piece more than just someone expressing a “different life experience”. It’s great that some people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and scrimp and save and work their fingers to the bone, but that last sentence implies that this is something ANYONE has the ability to do and that just isn’t true in this world. Some people get pregnant in high school and can’t save money, some people get sick, some people are disabled, some people come from such poor backgrounds that saving money when they are 17 doesn’t help much. The last sentence is what I take issue with, because it is a wonderful thing to be able to work and strive and survive for yourself, but it is not EVERYONE’s decision weather or not they have the opportunity to do that.

Perhaps the OP and company should read this: http://persephonemagazine.com/2011/10/dont-even-get-me-started-mythical-bootstraps-college-student

alexds1:

isaia:

espritss-libress:

yourskin-and-bones:

espritss-libress:

senpaichan:

blackenedbutterfly:

stfuconservatives:

Unions are the reason you get paid a minimum wage at all

Taxes subsidize your moderately-priced, in-state public university

Wow, I wonder if you lived at home and had parents or guardians paying your living expenses so you could start saving for college?

95% of scholarships go to white people like you

Have fun looking for a job after college, blowing through all your savings, and finally realizing what it’s like to live in the real world. You are the 99%. You just don’t know it yet.

Did your parents ever feed you or pay for a single item of your clothing? You’re a leech. Now shut up, you hypocrite :)

I am a college senior who works when he can because his anxiety levels are so high that he cannot take on a second job to work “full time” or even more than once a week if that. My grandmother and mother have been helping me save for college since I was born, and many birthday and holiday gifts were savings bonds specifically for college so that I would be able to get through with as little debt as possible.

I chose an in-state university despite the fact that I am over-qualified because I did not want to have to take out loans and go in to debt at age sixteen when I was applying to my first university.

I got decent grades in high school, but received no non-required scholarships because of the area where I was zoned. I applied for over three hundred. The only help I received was the $2000 the state is technically required to give someone when they graduate early because allegedly that is the amount of money they spend on each student for one year in school.

I live in a cheap apartment because I cannot handle living in a female dorm. My father helps me pay for that while the savings helps pay for all of my tuition and classes. In exchange for this apartment I have gone months where I’ve struggled to get enough food, and one month ate almost nothing except the oatmeal I got from a church’s food bank. I do not have a new phone, new car, or a credit card in my name. If I had debt, it would not be due to “bad decisions” that I’ve made.

I do not expect, but have received handouts in life and am grateful for what I’ve been given by my parents and friends who help support me. I have my own savings that have been eaten in to by banks taking out money for whatever reason they damn well please. I put as much money in to my savings as possible so I can go to culinary school once I am finished with the next two semesters and I expect absolutely no help there, though I hope that I qualify for scholarships by that point.

tl;dr - This person is full of shit.

Self righteous asshole. “I did it! so can you!” fuck kids born in poverty or kids who can’t fucking get a job in this economy! they are just lazy good for nothings! hey! the white guy can do it, and so can you!

Are you fucking kidding me? majority of scholarships go to minorities, in fact they even have their own individual scholarships that white people can’t apply for.

Majority of scholarships go to minorities? are you sure about that? and whites don’t have their own individual scholarships? yes, and for the same reason we don’t have straight prides or white history month or affirmative action for men.

The commentary is helpful for those who don’t know

Wow, the vitriol against the OP pic is really annoying. Someone had a different life experience and has formed a differing opinion! They aren’t comfortable donning victim status just because life isn’t perfect and are trying their best to make do in an inherently flawed system (and evidently succeeding)! They made a poster! Attack them!

jfc

In my opinion the last sentence “I am not the 99%, and weather or not you are is YOUR decision.” Is what makes this piece more than just someone expressing a “different life experience”. It’s great that some people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and scrimp and save and work their fingers to the bone, but that last sentence implies that this is something ANYONE has the ability to do and that just isn’t true in this world. Some people get pregnant in high school and can’t save money, some people get sick, some people are disabled, some people come from such poor backgrounds that saving money when they are 17 doesn’t help much. The last sentence is what I take issue with, because it is a wonderful thing to be able to work and strive and survive for yourself, but it is not EVERYONE’s decision weather or not they have the opportunity to do that.