Warning: The news you’re about to read is going to give you a bad case of the Mondays.

As of Friday, we will all be paying more in tuition come fall. We’ll give you a moment to let that one sink in.

On Friday, the state university Board of Governors gave its approval for tuition hikes for all 11 of Florida’s major public universities, including UCF.

Tuition will be going up 15 percent, the maximum the state allows.

Naturally, the universities would ask for the maximum amount.

Go big, go home or go home with something big, we guess.

It comes as no surprise to us that the tuition hike was approved. Budget cuts by the Legislature had to be replaced somehow.

Although we were hoping it wouldn’t be from our pockets.

There was also the fact that Florida’s Bright Futures scholarship fund was running out, leaving even less room for shock by the decision.

The state can no longer afford to pay for your education through the popular Florida lottery funded scholarship program, which many in-state students rely on.

The scholarship will still be offered, but say a student receives 100 percent bright futures.

The student will then receive a letter from the state saying “Just kidding” and only get some of that money.

OK, it wouldn’t go down exactly like that but you get our drift.

Our tuition is divided between base tuition and differential tuition.

Differential tuition goes toward things like improving undergraduate education and student financial aid.

Therefore, an increase in our differential tuition means more professors, programs and financial aid for students in need.

Hopefully this will be the case.

It’s comparable to having taxes increased. It sucks, nobody wants to pay and nobody thinks they should have to, but in reality it’s better for everyone as a whole. That sentence probably just gave a Tea Party member heart failure.

We pay, we all win.

We see the point.

Do we accept it? Sure, but begrudgingly.

The price of cigarettes went up, but did that discourage smokers from smoking? No, and the tuition increase will not stop us from buying an education.

However, aside from increasing annoyance, we may see a large increase of students opting for community college.

We can’t blame them.

Really, there is not much we as students can do about the tuition increase.

It may comfort you to know that Florida still holds the title of having low tuition in comparison to other states.

People make assumptions that our tuition money is consistently being spent on new, frivolous things like trees, benches and water fountains. It’s easy to raise this argument when you’re really not quite sure where your money is going.

In reality though, money for things like that is ear-marked and doesn’t come from our tuition.

So, get angry when you see new things like this pop up, but not too angry.

This tuition increase isn’t something to be thankful for, and it is really hard to see why the Board of Governors approved it.

Now that it’s here though, we urge students to pay attention to where their money is going and raise their voices when they don’t like what they see on the budget.