Students face a choice: Social lives or good grades

     College tuition is not cheap and at Bucks it’s only getting more expensive. So how do students juggle classes, work and other responsibilities without abandoning a social life? As it turns out, most students have to make a choice: Have a fulfilling social life or a high GPA.
     Dominic Overa, 20, a business major from Levittown, feels that between his schedules for school and work he does not have the time to have the social life that he wants. Overa works a full-time job and a part-time landscaping job in order to afford his education.
     Overa is not alone. Many students at Bucks are paying for college on their own, sometimes picking up two jobs and snatching as many hours as possible at work to make ends meet. The end result is a diminished social life.
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