samant samantha spekt is a graduating senior, brittany kaplan is also a graduating senior and patrickrim is a junior at iowa. nice to see all of you, even though i'm a cyclone, i welcome all of you to the program. you're graduating in a few week, student loan i'm told $25,000, that's about average in iowa and nationwide. you attended the president's speech. is this an issue for you? >> absolutely, i think this needs to be one of the president's top issues moving forward. the cost of debt for our students is unbelievable. and it's difficult that we're going to be going into the job market with this burden on our shoulders. it's just not fair. >> you've got about $28,000 in student loan debt. and your prelaw. plan on going to law school, that means more loans. and i'm going to tell you law school grads -- rising tuition, difficult job hunts, all the talk on the campaign trail. did you ever reconsider your log bench based upon what's happening in the economy and your desire to get a secondary dweg? >> i'm a political science public policy major, those fields don't have a whole lot of hir