Critique of Hobo Student
HoboStudent is aimed at giving advice, guides, and information to students who are struggling to get by, especially during these times of recession. Basically, the blog’s motto says it all: “Where the broke students go.” Getting by college life is difficult, but the difficulty level rises a few notches when you don’t have the money you need for this. HoboStudent seems to have a mission to inform and aid students how to get through college without much money. The blog has topics like Obtaining Beer with Little to No Money and The Secret to a Free Haircut.
What you’ll like about HoboStudent
HoboStudent has a web design that is very easy to use. With the categories lined horizontally along the heading of the page and other links lined along the right margin, the webpage is easy to navigate. Also, the blog posts are easy to spot and easy to access with large link buttons. Another good feature of HoboStudent is the use of pictures. Including pictures for each blog entry is important if you want to grab the attention of your visitors. The layout of the page is very organized and easy to understand as well.
What’s not so great about this blog
At first sight, it would seem as though HoboStudent has a good concept, albeit rather pessimistic. If I personally planned and conceptualized this site, I would try to have a more optimistic approach to helping less fortunate students get by in college. Instead of teaching students how to get by with no money, why not focus on helping students get out of their financial struggles? When you actually take the time to read some of the posts on this blog, it makes you wonder whether the authors are genuinely trying to help or they are just trying to get some laughs from their readers. From the site name alone, HoboStudent, it’s already hard to take the blog seriously, and the blog entries only prove my point.
April 16th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Looking at the website alone, the article was right; it’s really hard to take it and any of its contents seriously. After all, who in the right mind would tell people how to get by college without much money?
Oh yeah, Right, those who are not clinically sane. Students, whether poor or rich, can always opt for scholarship programs, whether it be funded by the government, a private human, a politician, or the school itself, although school-funded scholarships tend to be more hectic and have higher standards, they do give some useful benefits to their scholars plus they can take in the scholar into the institution’s teaching staff or as their employee after they graduate. Aside from that, Hobo literally means someone who is not capable of supporting himself. Some people tend to confuse them with homeless bums, which more or less are actually quite the same as Hobos, although these Hobos can actually do something productive with themselves rather than choose to be street beggars and sleep on the street, wandering about searching for another sleeping spot. And third, you must never take, and I mean never, take the comments and articles in this website seriously. Come on, free haircuts? Who gets that nowadays? Only if you have perks and friends on the inside do you get to have free stuff without even doing much, and it’s really hard to attain that kind of relationship with someone wherein they will trust you and give you free stuff so that you will be able to spend less for yourself. And although beer is part of any celebration, especially during your college years, it’s not really necessary for you to opt to drink or buy yourself a drink. If you have no money, then go home. All in all, this website is somehow pointless, however, it does get a few thumbs up for entertainment and humor.