Stephanie Ritter told BuzzFeed that she was purging³ her room of high school and college paraphernalia⁴ when she came across her Florida State University diploma. "I thought this piece of paper has so much worth to so many people, but for a theater major, it couldn't mean less," she said. "I'm doing the exact same things and probably getting paid the exact same amount as people that dropped out halfway⁵ through freshman⁶ year, except I'm still $40,000 in debt and they're, well, not."

 

Ritter said that she graduated college in 2011, and now works as an assistant. She said she found her job prospects with a theater degree to be lacking.

 

She is not the only one who has had trouble finding major-related work after graduation. According to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, only 27% of college graduates have jobs that are closely related to their major.

 

Dissatisfied graduates have tried to sell their diplomas before. But Stephanie is selling more than a diploma: She's selling her experience. In her description on eBay, Stephanie describes exactly what "experience" includes:

 

-A TOUR of Florida State University including everywhere you would have gone/eaten/partied in your four years at FSU.

-Access to all of my college memories/Facebook albums for 6 months!

-A show (on me) at the FSU School of Theatre (on opening night if time permits!)

-A TOUR OF ALL OF MY FAVORITE PUBLIXES INCLUDING SWEET TEA AT EACH LOCATION!!

 

Despite her current frustrations⁷, Ritter said she would choose to go to college again. But she said she would change a few things, like studying in a city where she could make more money to support herself, and, most important, finding a queer-friendly college:

 

"FSU was great, but there were, like, 1,000 straight white men for every queer person," she said. "I didn't realize how important being around other gay people would be until I recently joined an amazing group of mostly queer women and thought, Oh! This is what I could've felt like in college?"

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