If I'm being honest, I don't like it.

There are some technical issues -- things like grammar every now and then.

But the worst culprit, especially given it appears to be an essay, is... there's no point to it. What I mean is, you start off with a grand assertion that it's more difficult to be a student now than ever before. Fine, that could be interesting. But you never explore it further.

Rather, you go in and describe your own experiences (or the narrator does -- I don't know if this is fiction or satirical, but if it is satire then congrats, went way over my head) but they come across as typical at best, and whiny and entitled at worst.

Going from my own experiences, and the experiences of people I knew throughout university, nothing here stands out as particularly remarkable. In fact, with the parental support and the mere 7 hours a day, it sounds a much more lax experience than most students enjoy. The language used and the examples cited run a terrifyingly high risk of alienating the audience.

All right, some specifics:

Since most people go to college nowadays it has become more important than ever for students to pick the right field of study, that not only suits their preferences, but the one that will also help them stay relevant.

As far as openings go, I hate it. Let's break it down!

Since most people go to college nowadays

This sets the tone of your piece as an essay, or a white paper. Non-fiction in any case. Having said that, this sentence is literally without any merit or meaning. How do you know this information? Where is your citation? Where are the numbers that prove this point? You might as well have said, "Since most people are aardvarks nowadays..."

that not only suits their preferences, but the one that will also help them stay relevant.

That "the one that" at the end there... yuck. "...pick the right field of study, that not only suits their preferences, but that also helps them stay relevant."

Given the total lack of citations in your opening though, this is all just opinion. How can you prove this is more relevant now than ten years ago? One hundred years ago? What about one thousand years ago?

The degree that in their post-college years will help them be competitive when they start their “job hunting” career.

There's something wrong with this sentence. Is the whole thing referring to the "right field of study" from the first sentence? Because it reads like a fragment, and it's too long to make the connection nicely.

But being college student in 2015, isn't as easy as people seem to think it is.

You need to proof read your work. I'm certain that was meant to be "being a college student."

Due to the rising unemployment rates, the necessity for higher and higher grades, and more skills has arisen, driving college students to be more competitive, and pushing themselves to their limits in order to have a better chance at scoring a job that’ll help them make ends meet.

This does not make sense. When you start a sentence with "Due to" we expect that something happens due to the reasons you provided.

If I had to guess, you meant that due to rising unemployment, etc. college students have been driven to be more competitive, etc.

Maybe -- though again, where are your citations? Anyway, as it's written, this doesn't come across. You're missing the cause-effect.

Next, there's some serious grammatical issues here. "more skills has arisen." I have no idea what this means. If anything, more skills have arisen, but what does this have to do with your idea? Do you mean that there are more fields for students to specialize in?

My issue is that skills do not "arise." They are not zombies. They are not even alive. Skills don't do anything by themselves. And I think it would add impact if you told us what skills, specifically, have caused these issues. Are you talking about new fields of study in computing? Medicine? What?

I’ll walk you through my everyday schedule.

Why?

This comes out of nowhere, given you're talking about students and the needs they face. I think all it needs is a preface. Something like,

"As a student myself, I see this all the time. Let me walk you through one of my typical days."

I have to wake up at 7am the morning, take a shower, eat my breakfast pack my bag then take a 10 minute walk to the closest bus stop.

If you are writing this from the point of view of a student, and you tell us you're a student, then presumably you are writing this for non-students. Which means, most likely, it's for people who work for a living. Which means, none of them give a shit. I guarantee you, everyone who works nine-to-five, also wakes up, showers, eats breakfast, and commutes. Actually, you could apply this to children as well, as well as retirees, and pretty much everyone.

This is not a good beginning to describing the day of a student in an increasingly stressful lifestyle. Rather, this is the beginning to a common day most people in the world experience. (I guess politically, you are losing the argument by starting like this, since you come across as complaining about what's commonplace.)

From there I have to stand through a 35 minute long commute cramped with 80 or more people, in a bus that actually has a capacity of 48.

Just like the previous argument, this could be said of anyone that commutes by public transit (which, I understand, is the majority.) This is not unique to students, and I believe by saying this, you are alienating working people by coming across as whiny.

Sitting through ... 7 hours/day, for 35 hours a week ... rent a small apartment).

My previous points still stand, about a lot of non-student working people living like this, but now we have a new problem. The situation you are describing: arguably shitty hours and inconvenient living arrangements -- this is not new. Students have been studying like this for ages. It was like this when I attended university (hell, I would have killed for only 7 hours a day). It was like this when my parents went. I'll assume it was like this when their parents went too.

Your opening statements made it sound like students have it worse now than ever before -- and maybe they do -- but nothing you have said actually agrees with this. Further, many non students live like this.

If that's not enough

No, it's nowhere near enough. You've written a lot, but you haven't said anything. Certainly nothing that agrees with your argument, that students have it harder now than ever before.

I’m supposed to ... sleep ... paying attention ... clean ... trash out ... clean my dishes...

Yikes. I have no idea who the audience of your paper is, but this... I can't describe it other than using the word "whiny" again. Seriously, children are taught to clean up after themselves. Why is this something you are surprised that students are expected to do to? This comes across as terribly disingenuous. You may as well be asking "Why am I expected to put food in my own mouth?"

In the few hours that are left for myself ... *I study Mathematics, so things aren’t easy for me)

I hate to repeat myself, but the sense of this whole paragraph sounds like more complaining for complaining's sake. I'm not sure what relevance your major has on this (perhaps, if above when you mentioned "more skills arising" you mentioned some math specific ones, it would fit) but it reads like fishing for sympathy. I mean, my condolences, I guess? I'm an engineer myself, so I know what a course load looks like. Of course, I'm sure if you asked any student in any field, they'd tell you they had a tough time.

And all that information ... I had never encountered in my life before.

Ai. Your narrator does not come across as likable here. Spoiled, maybe. An institute of higher learning is there for learning, not for having knowledge handed to them on a higher platter. And worse, this still doesn't tie in to your opening, that students have it harder now than before.

At the end of the day, all I’m left with isn’t knowledge or experience at all. It’s pure guilt, because I’m wasting all of my parents’ savings.

Wow. This is a major red flag. Seriously, you opened up with "Since most people go to college nowadays it has become more important than ever..." Now, maybe I completely misunderstood this, but what I took away from it was that *it is harder to be a student now than ever before.

And then you talk about spending your parents' savings? This just reeks of entitlement. What about all the students that pay for their own studies? That work jobs, in addition to attending school. The idea of the working student is not new either.

You are killing your argument with stuff like this. By even mentioning it, you readily admit you are already much better off than the majority of students -- that you already have it easy. Unless you intended to adopt a whiny tone, this does not help you at all.

I should be thinking about what I really want to do, not what career my college degree, or going to college in general, pushes me to follow.

This sentiment I like. There does seem to be a push to turn universities into job factories, instead of places that promote knowledge for knowledge's sake. Well, sure, there's a practical reason for it, given that you can't make a living off well-wishing and pondering theories, so yeah, there's a need for practical employment applications too. The focus seems too unbalanced though, I agree.

Of course, as a lot of grads might tell you, your degree hardly defines the rest of your life.

College should be a way to collect knowledge,experiences and skills, not memorizing paragraphs or learning to solve equations by heart.

Maybe this is a nice thought, but it has little -- if anything -- to do with your opening.

Hope that helps, and thanks for sharing.