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- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+90Haha free*
*after 20k per semester tuition. - jlpete9, on 08/22/2008, -1/+82And we wonder why tuition is skyrocketing??
- buddyw, on 08/23/2008, -1/+69"This iphone cost $50,000, but it came with a free Bachelors Degree!"
- GMills, on 08/22/2008, -1/+51I don't get the point of this? Why do kids need iphones at their school. This is just another pointless stunt by a school who wants more kids to apply there.
- JonTheGoose, on 08/23/2008, -4/+42The only thing I got for free during my freshman year was a school t-shirt and syphilis.
I'm kidding about the syphilis.
seriously, ladies. - diemunkiesdie, on 08/23/2008, -3/+28If your iPhone is the only reason people talk to you at parties then you need to brush up on your social skills.
- endacrowley, on 08/23/2008, -0/+21no worries mate, there's no ladies on digg.
- c0balt279, on 08/23/2008, -0/+21"As you finish your high school years, a great journey begins" *skip*"We want you to know that we care about your tuition..." *skip* "We have been named number one in "Best College in the World" by the study we sponsored" *skip* "Come for a campus orientation today! Have lunch by the Reflecting Pond, stroll through the Nature Path, see our new football stadium, visit our 30 storied library, and meet the exceptional students who shape our diverse campus! We have over 1000 school clubs with a total of 50 members. In the meantime, please visit our website and sign in with your user id that you never requested."
Boring........
*BOLD*"Free iPhone for the first 150 students who sign up!"
I'M IN! - wiiwillrockyou, on 08/22/2008, -3/+20That kind of kills the appeal of having an iphone or itouch...imagine if you were at a party and everyone had an iphone
- jdh24, on 08/23/2008, -0/+17*$80,000
- LeeSoong, on 08/23/2008, -0/+17'FREE' as in you WILL pay 3 times more for it over time, with interest.
Welcome to your student loans! - somethinspecial, on 08/22/2008, -3/+19I want to go to that college.
- mogebier, on 08/23/2008, -1/+14What a great way to bribe people to go to your school.
- jasdf, on 08/23/2008, -0/+13And to pay more.
- meghalc, on 08/23/2008, -1/+12Nothing is FREE when you get it from your College!!! Do you ever wonder what that "MISC costs" on your statement is?
- doublefelix, on 08/23/2008, -2/+12I went to a state college and got stuck with an LG and a 4GB Zune.
- ModernGeek, on 08/23/2008, -0/+9about $360,000 after you pay the interest on those student loans.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 08/23/2008, -2/+11A lot of the iPhone conversations go like this:
"Wow, I found this awesome thing for my iPhone, you can jailbreak it then run emulators and all kinds of cool stuff on it" "Awesome, man, I want an iPhone, this new technology is awesome!"
Then I'm sitting there thinking "Man, you guys are crazy. I've had emulators, games, the Internet, music, movies, etc in my pocket for 3 years now on my Axim. The technology is old stuff with a layer of Apple-styled fingerprint-attractive coating on it and you guys think it's Apple's innovative ideas" The iPhone isn't anything new, in fact, it's a latecomer to the PDA/smartphone game, just that it shines so much that people think they need to upgrade, it's all about the "cool factor" that drives fashion-driven people to buy stuff. The only thing new about the iPhone is the multitouch display, which, I have to say, is awesome, but other than that, nothing new or innovative. - izzydrewlynn, on 08/23/2008, -0/+8except universities usually will tack the cost of the gadgets onto the tuition. ***** racket.
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+8plus $500 for books ._.
- centran, on 08/23/2008, -3/+10I don't even know why kids need laptops in class. I like gadgets but I still prefer to hand write notes. My handwriting is horrible... my spelling is horrible... my grammar is horrible, but there is just something about writing stuff down that makes it stick in your head.
Now, I realize some creative teachers have made classes interactive and you need a laptop for that but I would rather write and not lug around a heavy laptop for note taking. - lukak, on 08/23/2008, -1/+8“When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out,”
lol - ferrariman60, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6"She speculated that professors might try harder to make classes interesting if they were competing with the devices."
She clearly has not thought about this. They already have your money. You're paying them, and then going and screwing off (not that I'm not an offender myself, just stating facts). They don't give a *****, you can pay attention or not, but either way, you're still giving them your tuition and they're happy. They don't care if you pass. As long as the cash keeps coming for them, they're cool no matter what you do. - firebat9er, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6unnecessary/frivolous expenditures at every level.
- Tezgno, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6I graduated from Abilene Christian (ACU) the year before they started the mobile learning initiative. My tuition my final semester was nearly $500 per credit hour. This was before fees such as the infamous technology fee ($200 per semester). I can only imagine what the tuition and fees are now.
- Mithivh, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6$500? Mine were closer to $800 for Computer Science
- eelwrolyat, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6That's nothing. There's a private college not too far from my university that gives incoming freshmen a free macbook.
- redfred18t, on 08/23/2008, -0/+6$500 for books?! Maybe for 3 classes lol
- pearcewg, on 08/23/2008, -1/+7You would pay thousands of dollars to get a few hundred dollar device, that will quickly depreciate in value? Perhaps you SHOULD go back to school! :)
Just messing with you... I'm sure this helps to promote student happiness. - Sawta, on 08/23/2008, -0/+5Buy a new sports car and we'll throw in two FREE floor mats and a stick of gum!
- tech42er, on 08/23/2008, -1/+6You sound like a bad iPhone advertisement. Is that the idea?
- cotaskmemalloc, on 08/23/2008, -5/+10Great, now all the kids can experience how frustrating it is to have your phone crash while you're trying to answer a call!
***** the iPhone. Until Apple gets their ***** together, it's worthless.
Sincerely,
Disgruntled iPhone owner - latisha1903, on 08/23/2008, -1/+6My cousin goes to Oklahoma Christian University and received both a Macbook and her choice of an ipod touch or an iphone. She chose the ipod touch. Heck I'd go back to college just to get one of those cool pieces of gear.
- thegrantman, on 08/23/2008, -0/+5 HAHA!.........Blacula01...8 paragraphs from the bottom....."My colleagues and I.......
- jasdf, on 08/23/2008, -0/+5Looks like someone is paying too much in tuition...
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+6and their counter parts in less developed countries will get only a book and pencil.....yet manage to do better than these students in every possible field of study.
- ri59, on 08/23/2008, -0/+53 of the 4 universities (Freed-Hardeman, ACU, and OC) are all churches of Christ affiliated private schools. They are all doing it to compete (or stay competitive) for the incoming freshman that would choose between them or Pepperdine (another affilated school).
"Free" as in hidden in your tuition increases.
(my alma matter is OC) - thegrantman, on 08/23/2008, -0/+5Darklaughingman......did you see what he did? Read "My coleagues and I...." again.
- pearcewg, on 08/23/2008, -0/+51. I'm sure the students love it. They aren't thinking about costs and student loan debt. It is just good wow factor.
2. No wonder higher education costs have trumped inflation over the past 30 years. If it weren't for the fact that entrance slots are a growing scarcity, price would eventually lead to a collapse, due to massive inefficiency.
3. I wouldn't be happy if I were a parent. College finance is a scary thing to alot of parents, and this just seems to take that for granted.
4. If public Universities are doing this (or schools taking public funds are doing this), I would be not happy as a taxpayer. Accountability, anyone? - bagboyrebel, on 08/23/2008, -0/+5you don't get it, this makes it cheaper to be cool. All you have to do is not use your iphone and get some old cheap phone, this way you can impress everyone with how "ghetto" you are.
- BigDigg55, on 08/23/2008, -0/+4Your mom goes to college
- tech42er, on 08/23/2008, -0/+4An iPhone's an iPhone but what's behind door number 3 could be anything; it could even be an iPhone!
- wiiwillrockyou, on 08/23/2008, -0/+4nope
- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+5The "difficulties" of living on campus? I got up at 5 in the morning and drove 2 hours to class everyday while all the lazy dorm ***** overslept and came in to class 15 minutes late because they were up the night before getting hammered.
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- inactive, on 08/23/2008, -1/+5lol
- locojones, on 08/23/2008, -2/+5If your position requires you to look up answers on Wikipedia all day, I feel sorry for your customers.
- Sil369, on 08/23/2008, -0/+3Bummer they should offer the choice between getting an iPhone, iPod, xBox or whatever's behind door number 3 =_=
- debuggercll, on 08/23/2008, -2/+5I think having one would be genuinely good. I got a free iPhone (white) from my company and I use it all the time to look things up on Wikipedia and such. Anything I need to know, I can probably figure it out with my phone. It was a good investment on my company's part because I'm definitely more productive with it. Finding the answer to a lot of questions is too easy with the iPhone.
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