Conflicted Abroad by Ben

Conflicted Abroad by Ben - March 2016 Scholarship Essay

Studying abroad is an amazing opportunity, that should be taken advantage of if one has enough money. However, the problem lies within the last sentence. IF one has the money. Not every one has such means as to travel. While studying abroad supplies a great opportunity it also requires lots of resources that a lot of people don't have, therefore making it both illogical and economically unsound for there to be requirements of traveling abroad.
Traveling abroad obviously isn't bad at all. I am not "anti-traveling" at all. It supplies a wealth of knowledge and opportunity that most people never have in their life times. It is both substantial in moral, spiritual, and knowledge matters. It teaches as well as broadens the senses. It helps those studying language learn it first hand and develop their sense of culture.
The positives of traveling ends here. The money that it costs to get and sustain such lifestyle as to where you could both learn and live is unreasonable. Programs can run up to twice the cost of private colleges, which in themselves are generally more expensive than universities. In America we value the dollar almost to a fault. It has become it own deity. Students want to go to school cheap and earn money quick.
The thought of requiring studying abroad is illogical. The actual idea in itself isn't, it offers many resources of experience, opportunity, and knowledge, however the cost to travel, live, and learn is unreasonable for a student to be required to pay. It would bring up student debt as well as bring nation economy down. It isn't just unfair but unreasonable.