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- staystellar, on 09/10/2008, -0/+6talk about living off of ramen...
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -2/+7Yes, because no one going to college does so to learn anything valuable.
While you yell at the TV screen watching NASCAR and say, ***** YEAH to Kid Rock and the Army, the United States is FAILING. It's a cesspool of dumb-***** like you, who only survive because the ever-shrinking minority of motivated, smart people keep this country afloat. But guess what: The ignorant have reached such a mass that even the best and brightest can't keep your fat asses from dragging this country down.
So enjoy the ride into the sewer, you lazy turd. - Kazbaeden, on 09/11/2008, -1/+6Yeah! This would explain why some of my friends graduating this year have landed $120k salaries with a BS BA. Wait, no it wouldn't. Good luck getting that with your straight out of highschool "work experience." I don't know of many fortune 500 companies that don't list "Bachelor's Degree" on the list of job requirements, despite work experience.
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+5Ahh...*****
- shep72685, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4They've been doing this for awhile now.
- B52doc, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4I go to a Cal State school and the tuition keeps going up every year. And the fact financial aid does not cover summer semesters makes it that much worse.
I like not having to pay to per a unit, but paying 1800 bucks for a couple of summer classes sucks. CSULB charges a flat fee no matter how many units you are taking, not sure if this is how all Cal States are. - stellamaris, on 09/11/2008, -0/+3At WVU I'm charged $100 per semester to use the library (where I also work). Last time I checked, libraries were free.
I'm not attending my graduation ceremony because they charge $200 to attend (and I really just don't care to go). - warriorscot, on 09/11/2008, -0/+3Its not just Art History Majors, if only it was it wouldn't cost so much, we so often ridicule the "arty" degrees but they are relatively cheap to run. Its the courses in Science and Engineering that all the western nations are crying out for more of that cost the money, I'm lucky I don't have to pay it in my country but my degrees tuition for a year is more than double that of Art history.
And its proven that spending tax money on education pays back as people with an education earn more money and therefore pay more taxes. Not to mention the boost to any economy that comes from a highly skilled workforce. Western nations need that highly skilled, highly educated workforce in order to compete as other nations can undercut when it comes to low to medium skilled labour every time. - founderofpork, on 09/11/2008, -3/+6Unless you're going in to a scientific field there is NO REASON to attend college. None. You can get the same ***** office job after 4 years in the work world as you can with your $60,000 English degree. If you absolutely must attend college, at least do half your credits at a Community College.
School is so insanely over priced, and it's only getting worse. Degrees are becoming worth less and less every year, and yet people are still told from Elementary through the end of High School that without a college degree you're worthless. It's basically a form of institutionalized debt that all young Americans get funneled right along in to. - stellamaris, on 09/11/2008, -0/+3Some of us don't want ***** office jobs, and use college to gain experience in our field.
But you're right about Community College. I went for a year and saved a lot of money. With most of my college paid for by my smart, investing grandparents (we are not rich), I will graduate with about $2-3K in debt, which isn't too bad. - Iztikeit, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Consider yourself lucky that you live in California when it comes to Colleges.
Ohio is not bad, though. Cannot complain too badly. - Cerius, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Cal State System
In state $2k
Out of state $30k
I'm not going to complain. - pinkfish411, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Believe it or not, science and ***** office jobs aren't the only options out there. All my college friends have graduated and are doing quite well, and very few of them have jobs in science or ***** office jobs.
And let's not forget the fact that some people go to college to learn, all career aspirations aside. - jprater, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1When I was in college, they charged a $150 "technology" fee every semester. I guess it's b/c I majored in IT--seems pointless though since technology is part of the degree. I wish they would just add these fees into the tuition to make paying for everything easier.
- mnky9800n, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Wait, your name is Barackalypse and you are complaining about your tax dollars putting other people through school? NEWS FLASH! Barack Obama wants to create a national scholarship using YOUR tax dollars to put everyone who wants it through school. Perhaps you should re-evaluate what you have to say before you say it.
- OfNumbers, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
- brettg102, on 09/11/2008, -0/+108/21/2008 Instructional Fee 2,632.00
08/21/2008 General Fee 249.00
08/21/2008 Info Tech & Inst Equip Fee 105.00
08/21/2008 Campus Life Fee 147.00
Balance Due: 3,133.00
:Bill for one quarter (3 quarters + summer quarter, unlike semesters) at University of Cincinnati. Just paid it. Ohio is in the top 5 for most expensive public schools. ***** thing sucks. - yardie, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Hokie here. When I started university they charged an entrance fee of $250. When I graduated they charged an exit fee of $150. Along that route were student health fees, transportation fees, athletic fees, computer fees (I tried to argue out of this one since I didn't need to use the computer labs at that point), lab fees, and [insert random fee, $amount]. BTW, I had a scholarship that covered tuition and books. But I still had to come out of pocket $2000/semester. I thought this was really snarky because I could have stayed home, gone to a community college and the total would still be less than the university semesterly fees.
I've been to many other places and still consider it the best education money can buy. But damn, enough with the fees. We also protested the fees because it felt like a way to get around raising tuition (why petition the governor for more money when you can sock it to the students) - inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1God forbid we educate America
- r00ts, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Just do what my school does: Have the money your winning sports teams generate pay for random, unnecessary technology upgrades (such as installing useless LCDs in all of the buildings).
- Pixelpaws, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Colleges? In Florida, they're doing this in *high school*. We had one student kicked out of a web design class because they couldn't pay a $25 lab fee. So much for universal public education, huh?
- uncertainty, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Seriously? Wow. If I REALLY wanted to live there, I would totally establish residency first.
- PalaceRules, on 09/12/2008, -0/+0More and more colleges have these kind of "hidden fees." And how much we pay for these hidden fees keeps going up. The Center for Student Health and Life (www.cshal.org) has started a petition to improve college health and eliminate some of these fees by encouraging universities to accept a family's health insurance. Please take 10 seconds and sign our petition at:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/collegehealth/ - NicoNicoNico, on 09/11/2008, -0/+0I really regret not taking my old piano teacher's advice. She told me (well, my parents) to move to France so that, by the time college rolled around, I could get a free education at the University of Paris. My head still hurts from all the headdesking.
Now I'm paying for a degree that costs $5000 a quarter. My mother worked minimum wage jobs to pay for her own schooling, too bad that's simply not possible nowadays. - ianuk11, on 12/26/2008, -0/+0Nice
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http://www.nice-wallpapers.com/3d-wallpapers.html - Barackalypse, on 09/11/2008, -3/+2What exactly is your point here? I'm a productive citizen complaining that my money is being used to send other people through school, and yet you're going off on how the best and brightest are somehow keeping the country afloat for people like me? Newsflash, people like me ARE the ones keeping the country afloat, you'll notice the poor and unemployed aren't the ones complaining about what their tax money is used for.
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -3/+2Hooray for LYING. Why should anyone be surprised? This is how our entire country now functions, from business to taxes. No guts and no pride. Just continual tests of people's stupidity, and sadly those tests reveal that their stupidity is almost boundless. Therefore, these scumbags will continue to wring money out of them with underhanded ***** like this. And spineless apologists just roll over and take it, and flail pitifully at anyone who shows them up by actually fighting back.
Pathetic. - Iztikeit, on 09/11/2008, -2/+1Terribly true, but in the future economy, the one where the internet has created a leveled playing field from home, it will not matter as much that so many lazy people surround us.
But, I am already taking Mandarin classes, just in case. - Barackalypse, on 09/11/2008, -8/+5Good, its nice to see the people using the service paying for more of the cost of it, instead of the taxpayers getting stuck subsidizing useless "Art history" majors.
- MisterOh, on 09/11/2008, -3/+0suck yourself, USC trojans
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