What's Your Beef?

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Spending a semester at William Paterson University amid the COVID situation doesn’t give a true reflection of the school’s state as usually crowded spots and areas seemed scanty or almost empty, parking lots meant for commuters seemed like a reserved lot meant for VIPs and one had to hardly wait on queue for anything so basically all seemed nice and quite rosy in the fall semester of 2020.

However, my only beef is with the tuition fees which  I find expensive and my thinking on it is this, since most of the classes have been moved online and in some cases hybrid, we should be getting reimbursed for studying from home and not using the facilities on campus or just a reduction in tuition will be just fine. So apart from dealing with expensive tuition, another thing I can't wrap my head around is the need to pay distance learning fees, The logic behind that completely eludes me, students are learning from home, faculty staff is teaching from home, school is free of both parties in most cases, why should students pay for distance learning that they are enrolled for not necessarily by choice? Now that’s my beef, lol.

If there is anything I could do and I had the power to do it, it will be to reduce tuition knowing that as the school is going through financial difficulties so are students and their families having even a more difficult time financially. If only wishes were horses.