Blog 28

Today, I chose a topic that all of us can relate to: materialism within college life. "Everyone is Buying it" by Krysta Suydam analyzes how materialism runs through our veins from an early age and continues the idea with sharing the constant desires in college. This immense amount of materialism has continued to increase in today’s society, even when the money is scarce and we should be investing it rather than spending it. Look around campus and what do you see most of? Sperry’s…North Face jackets…Ray-Bans…ipads…and the dreadful UGGS…these are all objects that could possibly be spotted on 1 of the 3  Ohio State students that you pass next. Suydam goes into this analysis deeper by talking about how ads affect people. We see about 5,000 ads a day which easily grab our attentions. We have a huge denial to the fact that these ads affect us, but even though you may be denying this, ads have a huge affect. We have these constant wants, which is especially hard for us college students who will later have to pay off those wonderful college loans. We have crazed desires for the latest fashion trends and technology…basically anything that’s considered the newest thing. This can’t really be considered a bad thing since all of society goes through this. It’s human nature to constantly want to reach the next level. The only problem is when this level of desire reaches past the limit, into the possibility of debt. The lesson to be learned is to be smart with your money. It’s a hard task, but it’s an important thing to learn.