Editorial Assignment

It has taken me some time to come up with a topic for my editorial. For some reason my mind went blank as I tried to brainstorm ideas. I want to make sure the issue I choose is something I want to write about. Obviously, in an editorial, it is important to have a strong, powerful stance on the given issue.

I have decided to focus my editorial on the struggles college students will face after graduation. It is hard enough to enter the real world right out of college. Interning and/or job searching is already a difficult task in itself. With the recent struggles in the economy, students are facing more troubles. The reason we are here (at a university/college) is to further our education, which in turn will earn us a higher paying job in the future. These days we are bombarded with breaking news informing us of this company or that company going bankrupt. Circuit City, Starbucks... the unemployment rate is simply unbelievable. I don't think any of us thought it would get this bad, or how it could affect so much.

Most of us aren't paying a mortgage or supporting three kids, trying to feed a family. We aren't being laid off from companies we have been a part of for five years. As college students, many of us aren't directly affected by this economic downfall. It hasn't hit us yet and many don't even know what's coming to them. Before we know it, we will be let go into this world, on the search for a job, degree in hand. But these days a college degree simply won't be enough. And in my opinion, that's a scary, scary thought.