Now listen to two students discussing the letter.
Did you see Juliu’s letter?

Yeah I did.

And?

I’m all for it.

Yeah?

Yeah. Jobs like that provide students with great work experience, experience they can use in the real world.

Like what?

Well. I mean basically they’d be running a business. The learn how to do it all. Makeup staff schedules keep track of inventory order supplies, make sure the building is maintained.

Yeah I guess you could learn a lot.

Yeah stuff you can really use when you graduate, especially if you’re thinking of starting your own business.

Ok. Yeah I can see that. But her second point doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I mean we have a nice cafeteria. What’s wrong with eating there?

Well, it is a nice cafeteria, but sometimes the lines are really long and you just don’t have time to wait.

Yeah. That’s true.

Especially if all you want is like a cup of coffee or a quick sandwich or something. That’s true. But if you have a car.

Yeah, if you have a car which a lot of students don’t, you can drive to one of the stores in town. But still the closest ones, like a 15 minute drive. So round trip, it takes at least a half an hour.

And that’s time you could use for studying.

Exactly.