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"Cal-State to use 51 million to Restore Cut Classes"

http://cbs5.com/local/csu.new.classes.2.1473638.html

Found the link to this news item online at yahoo.com, under the local news section on the front page. Obviously this is important to not just me but millions of students in California in or applying to CSU's. It's newsworthy because of the millions of students it effects, as well as the teachers working for these schools, and obviously it has a local connection to us because it's CSU and that's California.

The California State University budget has been a big issue for about a year now and many of my peers, including myself, have been pretty pissed off about this. When I came to this school in the fall 2008 semester, I thought I was finally going to be away from that high school culture of not caring about students, classes, and school maintenance and upkeep but so far I have been mostly wrong. Granted, coming from where I came from but still I expect more from a school I actually pay to teach me. I feel like a lot of the BS hasn't stopped in that transition from high school to college because of this budget problem and it's a damn shame that schools continually gets s*** on (pardon my French) first whenever this state gets into a budget deficit of any sort.

But this is a good sign though that CSU system might be recovering and is able to put some money back into the students and teachers after screwing around for the last year. This is also good in that my friend from back home will have a better chance of making it into this school for the fall semester as well and I'm looking forward to having some more hometown buds here with me. Overall, I just hope it's a sign of things to come, not just a tease.