T O M Y F A L L E N C O M R A D E S , C H E E R S

Beyond the happiness that I felt soon as I was awarded a scholarship, the polarizing guilt and resentment toward the neoliberal system of education transpired no later than the former I felt as if the playing field for an aspirant college student like me to enter an institution can be likened to someone crossing through a tightrope-- except that someone has no harness or any safety nets to fall on

As the grueling pandemicinduced college admissions exams draw near, people who do not have the same destiny as mine, pitiful hundreds of thousands of them were secured of a fate: to discontinue their studies and find a fortune somewhere else. Laughable in itself, education is not on their side as the latter has claimed