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- kplo, on 05/29/2009, -1/+260It's all the worse when you haven't even begun to pay back your student loans.
- z0zin, on 05/29/2009, -2/+219I can relate. My school continues to raise tuition every year, citing new construction costs, buildings that I will never get to see.
- nkleffman, on 05/30/2009, -13/+205I have nothing against giving charitable donations to my alma mater.... that is, until the University of Iowa paid the war-criminal Karl Rove $40,000 to speak. At that point they lost all donations they would have received from me, and I love telling them so every time they ask.
- Linguo, on 05/29/2009, -1/+186As soon as I graduated and my edu email address dried up, I moved and also changed my phone number. THEY'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!
- chessthecat, on 05/30/2009, -1/+160I once worked for a college alumni research committee. I was paid by the college to find people like you. And find them I did. Sometimes it took hours but they gave me a phone book and a 'net connection and just let me loose. Phone the last known number. Phone all the "Smiths" in the book until someone knew you. Google, 411, reverse lookups. I was paid by the hour not the name so I didn't care how long it took to find people. At the end of every night I turned in my sheet with names and current numbers. I never really thought of what they did with those lists. They told me it was because there was a reunion and they wanted to invite you to it. I'm sure that was true but I see now it was also so they could hit you up after the party for cash. Sorry.
- bicyclethief, on 05/30/2009, -2/+122The university bookstore rapes you when you get their books required for classes and then, at the end of the term, buys them back at some ridiculously tiny fraction of the original price and they want more of my money? ***** off.
- kiley481, on 05/30/2009, -2/+120Dear Alumni Association ...
I thoroughly enjoyed my time in college. I'd be more than happy to donate a few hundred monthly. You can expect the first of these payments in 2037 ... AFTER I've finished paying off $140,000 in student loans.
Signed,
Destitute in D.C. - inactive, on 05/29/2009, -5/+114You know, if you tell your college that you can't donate because you're dead and they believe you, I'd start looking into getting a refund.
- jhanson, on 05/30/2009, -1/+90I actually managed to get off the call list for my school. What I did was request to be put on the "inactive alumni" list. I did that four or five years ago and haven't received a call since. I made it clear to the dean of alumni relations that if I ever received a call, they were guaranteed to never receive a penny from me. If they leave me alone, I might reconsider.
The fact is, there's no way in hell that I will ever donate to my college. It's a private university with high tuition rates that can afford to put the university president in a huge mansion and the athletes in private apartments, so they don't need any more of my money. Instead, I donate yearly to the underfunded rural high school that I attended. - super_spyder, on 05/30/2009, -1/+79I think I would enjoy that job. Is that creepy?
- diggtater, on 05/29/2009, -4/+77I think the key is to not graduate.
- localrick13, on 05/30/2009, -4/+71I dug a little and found that "Alex D. Reid" got a bachelors degree in philosophy. Wtf do you expect from a philosophy degree? If you got a degree where you actually learned something, ie comp sci, math, business, communications, even something like psychology, you might have been more successful.
Also I think about the 5 or 6 friends I have that don't have degrees, each makes ~$100K per year. Maybe you're leaning too much on the degree. I think it's more about the person and what their knowledge offers. Maybe there's some problem with how you present yourself. - SabrinaC, on 05/29/2009, -1/+63I just tell them I'm dead. I honestly tell everyone that calls me who I have no direct contact with--that I do not want to deal with that I am dead.
- SmokingRobot, on 05/29/2009, -4/+63I am not looking forward to this when I graduate.
- Tsac77, on 05/29/2009, -1/+57My school is tracking me down like a bounty hunter.
- alexdreid, on 05/29/2009, -3/+56What sucks is that it's always students calling you, so you feel bad saying "no." Oh, those manipulative colleges and universities...
- InetRoadkill, on 05/30/2009, -0/+52I put in my degree check just before my last semester. They said all I needed to graduate was to take a couple more classes to complete my degree requirements which I did. I then filed for my degree thinking I finished the catalog requirements for the degree. They announced that they had made a last minute change to the catalog and that I needed to take another 9 hours of classwork. They decided that the foreign language courses I had taken no longer counted and that I had to take more humanities. (My degree is in Engineering.) So I spent one more semester killing time in introductory music, history of rock music, and introductory drawing. God, what a waste of time.
Now when they call I tell them "You will never ever get another dime from me for that stunt". - lead2thehead, on 05/30/2009, -1/+51My college does the same thing and I always tell them to take a hike. They extorted enough money out of me while I was there.
- slayerab, on 05/30/2009, -1/+49So they wasted donated money to pay someone to google their alumni?
- syn3rgyz, on 05/30/2009, -1/+49into what? mcdonalds?
- z0zin, on 05/29/2009, -2/+47Obama finished to pay his debt right before he became President.
- Chompy, on 05/30/2009, -1/+44Those ***** track you down, they put like Grissom on that *****. If only we could harness the power used by colleges to track down alumns, just imagine what humanity could achieve..
University of Maryland finally ran me to ground in Korea. They had my ***** gu, dong, and building number. How the *****? The IRS didn't even know! - FattyMagee, on 05/30/2009, -15/+57Sounds like he majored in liberal arts.
- charlietuna, on 05/30/2009, -0/+35Oh yeah, that saves you a LOT of dough.
- Chompy, on 05/30/2009, -0/+33That's so crazy it just might work.
- Buckeye17, on 05/30/2009, -0/+32Ehh, I'd say engineering, business, and some science degrees are worthwhile.
- xtmno3, on 05/30/2009, -0/+32If anyone thinks they can get away from someone who wants to find them, all I have to say is: Westlaw. Any public record, any mortgage, any marriage, anything can be searched. You will be found.
- ShyGuy91284, on 05/30/2009, -0/+31Ditto. I haven't even been out of college for a year yet and they already sent me a letter asking for money for some student scholarship fund. F that. Maybe I should reply and say sure, if you take that much off from how much I owe you in loans.
- yellowbuddy, on 05/30/2009, -1/+32I'm a student supervisor at the call center for my university. Just a couple of things.
1. Expensive private colleges may not need to/would be irresponsible to solicit funds year after year from alumni, but I call for a small public school in the middle of Wisconsin. We're getting hit hard by this recession, with about 20 teaching positions being cut this year. (And yes, I know this isn't unique to my school) We do need the money we get from alumni, and every dollar helps.
2. At least where I call from, if you say you won't give, we'll stop calling you until next year. Also, there's a very easy way to never be called again: Clearly state you want to be taken off the list. Where I work, we have to honor this, and we will never call you again. - Buckeye17, on 05/30/2009, -1/+32Yep. Liberal arts majors never specifically tell you their degree, they just say they got a degree.
- ryanonfire, on 05/30/2009, -1/+32At least it's only your college my high school won't STFU
- stonebone4, on 05/30/2009, -1/+31My freshman year I got a scholarship that required I work on campus in one of the offices. I got put in the Alumni office.
Don't ever, EVER, sign up for the Alumni Association when you graduate, I don't care how many bumper stickers or magazines they promise you. The list of people I was forced to call and harass for money during homecoming is mind-boggling.
If you don't sign up for the AA they can't call you. It's that easy. - inactive, on 05/30/2009, -1/+30i don't. I know people who did those jobs while still in school and they felt like ***** calling up people asking for money.
- DangerCollie, on 05/30/2009, -1/+29I know. And my college didn't do jack for me on tuition assistance. When I needed lab space, they gave me a room in a condemned building.
And now they want money. $whatYouGet = $sand->pound(); - charlietuna, on 05/30/2009, -2/+29A few years after I graduated NYU I was living in a furnished apartment in Galveston. I was was behind the salvation army and my neighbor was a drug dealer. I had two stray cats living with me and I was earning mebbe 23k as a lab tech. The phone rings and it's the alumni association assuming that I was most likely earning 100k/annum and I would surely have and extra grand to spare. Heck that was more than my porno and beer budget!
- Specul8, on 05/30/2009, -3/+30I got a letter yesterday from my Alma Mater and I had the same thoughts. Why can't Universities and Colleges try a little fiscal prudence like the rest of us?
- dattaway, on 05/30/2009, -5/+31I found a degree on my resume leaves me overqualified to get interviews. Leaving my college out of it gets my foot in the door.
- greenlight2001, on 05/30/2009, -0/+26Do what my class did, start a class action lawsuit against the university for grossly over selling parking permits and profiting off writing tickets when people couldn't finds spaces and parked 'illegaly'. Took all of about 1 month for the school to settle and refund all the tickets for that year and build 2 new lots.
- jhanson, on 05/30/2009, -0/+26That may be true at your school, but it wasn't at mine. I signed up for nothing and still received calls.
- InetRoadkill, on 05/30/2009, -1/+27My university didn't have dorms on campus or even nearby at the time so you have to drive or take the bus to get to class. The parking lot was about half the size it needed to be so you had to get creative to find a place to park. They had quite a scam going with the campus police ticketing people as fast as they could as a result. (FYI: The only creature dumber than a mall rent-a-cop is a campus police officer.) I'm not sure how much they were taking in each day, but there was allows a long line of students at the window waiting to pay tickets. They don't need any more of my money.
- stufflebean, on 05/30/2009, -0/+25You pay for porno? Interesting...
- blackjack75, on 05/30/2009, -5/+30Why would a college have to beg for money? People pay taxes to the government and the money is reinvested in free services to improve everyone's life, like a free and efficient education system, instead of wasting it in useless foreign wars.
I am just kidding, this couldn't happen. Ever. Anywhere. - newmedusa, on 05/30/2009, -3/+26Philosophy, if well taught, is worth SO much more than communications, which I'm pretty sure was invented to make it so people who otherwise wouldn't need to go to college for the jobs, would. Philosophy isn't a money-maker, of course, but if that's why you went to college than you weren't really getting an education anyway, you were getting job training.
I understand the need to get a good job, but seriously: the fact that the only justification for going to college these days is to get a better job is why education has been so ***** up in this country; learning for the sake of learning, being economically impractical, is being phased out. - KenOh, on 05/30/2009, -0/+22The funny thing is, I have none of the same contact info from college and somehow, starting a few months ago, the letters asking for money started coming to my home address.
- elmuerte17, on 05/30/2009, -0/+21he was saying that if the college was dumb enough to fall for that, they probably had nothing worth teaching and therefore aren't deserving of his tuition fees.
- Larsonal777, on 05/30/2009, -0/+21Let me point out something that the letter has even stated.
While going to school the school pumps its students dry... People don't go to school for free and then pay for it later... no... I paid for school while I was in school... actually the Air Force paid for half of my school while I paid for the rest... which I will be paying the Air Force back with the next 5 years of my life. Not only that but after forking out literally thosands of dollars every semester I get these absolutely retarded fees. Like when I want to cancel my meal plan... which I don't have to have and haven't even started using as its not even the first day of school yet... oh that has to have been cancelled in June? What? who is thinking about what they are going to be eating the following Sept in June? Oh its going to cost me an arm and a leg just to cancel? Not even cancel but just get less meals? Well heres that arm and leg... just that much less to feed anyhow. And don't get me started on their parking nazis... nazis without souls. Or how about the PRS units that were supposed to be good till we graduate and we could then sell them back... oh they decided to get a different system? We have to buy new ones? And now their asking to donate our units since they are useless to us so they can give them to some other school? WTF? How about you buy it from me like you said you would when I graduate and then YOU can donate it.
The sad part is that I went to school in a construction zone... it got here my freshmen year and then they decided to rip everything up... and it wasn't mostly finished until my senior year. Which by the way none of which was for my department... no all of the engineering depts pretty much got the shaft while I was there.
Oh and about the Air Force pumping what I can only assume to be hundreds of thosands into the school and what do they get? Well even though the gym is reserved has been reserved and is on the registrars class schedule every monday night for years as an ROTC class oh the girls volleyball/softball gets to just take it whenever they want while we stand there wondering what we're going to do for an actual class? Excuse me? We get less ***** ***** from the D1 Football team when we want to use THEIR space for PT in the mornings.... and the gym in question is NAMED after a AF commissionee!
Oh and do you want to know where all the latest Alumni Association funds are going? To build the President a brand new house... a ***** HUGE house. The only benifit I see for students there is the ooo factor... I mean what student is going to walk by that house on their way to their run down deptment and not want to fork out the donations when they leave. But I guess thats what the alumni wanted...
And that was my little rant... I'm gradumacated and its behind me... until they start calling.... thats the good thing about the Air Force... I get moved every couple years. maybe its enough to stay ahead of them? - theonlywizdum, on 05/30/2009, -0/+19I got three letters from the university last week. The first one was to inform me that they were losing money, so they were firing staff and increasing tuition. The second letter informed me that I was one of the staff members being fired. The third was to let me know that the state is also broke, so they are cutting my financial aid in half. Awesome. It also makes me wonder how much they could save if they combined these letters into one big letter.
- Chompy, on 05/30/2009, -0/+19I don't even say no, I just hang up. Saves us both time.
- Lunarsight, on 05/30/2009, -0/+19It never ends - I've been out of college about eleven years, and they still call me annually looking for donations.
When I changed addresses, I didn't give them the new one, yet somehow they managed to find me. =( - matt85163, on 05/30/2009, -4/+22You may have a problem paying for these buildings that you'll never use, but I'm sure you have no problem using the buildings that your predecessors paid for...
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