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Back in my day ... the choice of college took into account whether the National Guard would murder you there ... kids today have it too easy ...
Dave Berry, world renowned expert on North Dakota sewage pumping stations, tells the tale of why Princeton University brought Albert Einstein onto their staff ... the administration was having great difficulty determining the right amount of tuition to charge ... thus today we have the not-so-well known Einstein's 3rd Law of Relativity ... "The more a parent pays to send their kid to Princeton, the more impressed the relatives will be, in general" ... and the corollary: "Tuition is limited only by the administration's imagination" ... as in "I can't imagine anyone paying that much to send their brat to this dump" ...
The University of Oregon couldn't build buildings fast enough to keep up with demand ... so administration just started raising tuition by leaps and bounds just to slack the incoming freshman ... didn't work ... the rejection rates are appalling there for no other reason than not enough classrooms ... does the OP think this is wrong? ... should we have yet another layer of government to regulate this? ... should we take all the profit out of higher education? ...
California used to have what some called a K-14 public education system ... community colleges were tuition-free for residents ... and the four-year state colleges and universities were dirt cheap ... here we're talking some big names too, CalTech, UCLA, Berkeley ... Lawrence/Livermore, JPL, Los Alamos ... UC holds the contract for building all the nuclear bombs for the US Military ... all on the tax-payers' backs ...
We all know the OP doesn't want to raise taxes and she sure as shit doesn't want more government regulations ...
My suggestion would be to hold these universities responsible for issuing fraudulent student loans ... just about anybody can walk into a student financial aid office in any community college and get a loan ... without any consideration if the student is qualified to take college level classes ... and so often these students are stuck having to re-take all the classes they failed in high school ... three years later, $10,000 in student loan debt and they still can't pass algebra ... the college gets their money, they absolutely don't care whether the student succeeds or not ... big profits writing everyone a loan who asks ... the nice part about this is we already have all the laws we need and the prosecutors trained to criminally pursue these "loan sharks" ... it's real easy to sit the perspective student down and have them write an essay ... then judge the essay as to whether this person is ready for a college English class ... and if not, then no loan, pay tuition yourself until you are ready for college level classes ...
I'm sorry ... if you're smart enough to go to college ... then you're smart enough to figure out how to pay for it without borrowing ...
I was once $450,000 in debt ... took me twenty years working 8 hours a day for four months a year and two hours a day the other four months ... doesn't everybody get four months paid vacation every year? ... so who needs a high school diploma? ...
So, tell us, what was your major in college? ...
Political Chic majored in Cut and PasteI was once $450,000 in debt ... took me twenty years working 8 hours a day for four months a year and two hours a day the other four months ... doesn't everybody get four months paid vacation every year? ... so who needs a high school diploma? ...
So, tell us, what was your major in college? ...
I did a quick search for:But what's the alternative to College? Working in a factory for a wage of $20 per hour?(can't get far on that kind of slave wage)....my granddaughter just graduated from uw Madison and was immediately hired on in a hospital Maki g almost $40 per hour...she works 36 hours a week and gets paid for 40. She would never come close to that working for some lowlife company owner.
You could perhaps use your own brain, some motivation and a little imagination. I retired early and pretty well off as a non degreed EE in silicon valley . Probably the most competitive environment on earth for EEs at the time.
Then too there were Jobs, Gates, Wozniak and many others including Zuckerberg who dragged down billions sans degree. However they all had to use their brains along with a lot of hard work and some long hours.
A degree, especially some worthless BA degree in liberal arts crap guarantees you NOTHING!
Ah, college. The last bastion of experimentation.
Like choosing underwater basketweaving as your major, while your parents pay through the nose.
OK, that one's still just a rumor, but you might want to check with your kids before signing on the dotted line -- because these 20 twisted majors are 100 percent real:
1. Wine Making. College isn't just about boozing after hours. Students at a host of schools can take viticulture -- learning to make wine from the grape growing to the grape stomping (or pressing these days) and beyond.
2. Golf Management. Four years on the links doesn't sound all that hard, but these students actually learn everything from how to keep a green "green" to hospitality.
3. Boilermaking. Not just the Purdue mascot, it's the study of how to make and repair steam parts.
4. Franchising. An entire line of study can help you run your own fast food chain. It's a far cry from flipping burgers.
5. Philology. A fancy name for the study of language. Take your pick from Tagalog to Urdu.
6. Meat Cutting. Thank a meat-cutting major for your steak tonight.
7. Home Ec. Yes, even in this day and age -- although they call it "family and consumer sciences" these days.
8. Home Furnishings and Equipment Installers. A roundabout way of saying "interior design," but they sound large and in charge this way.
9. Auctioneering. Classes to make you talk faster! New Yorkers need not apply.
10. Fashion and Fabric Consultation. Next stop: personal shopper.
11. Aromatherapy. You mean there's more to it than walking through Yankee Candle and taking home what smells good?
12. Human Sexuality. Let's talk about sex, baby! They do it at Widener University!
13. Canadian History. Our neighbor to the north is YOUNGER than the United States. And that's saying a lot.
14. Gunsmithing. As long as there's a right to bear arms, someone has to make them, right?
15. Mortuary Science and Embalming. Somebody's got to do it, but way to bring a pallor to your party days.
16. Logic. Can we sign everyone up for a year of this?
17. Security and Loss Prevention. They're NOT just mall cops apparently.
18. Cartooning. It's not a well-known college, but there's a school devoted entirely to comic books. Spider-Man eat your heart out.
19. Bagpiping. There's never a shortage of pipers at Scottish funerals ... or weddings ... thanks to Carnegie Mellon.
20. Sports Ministry. Get out there with your pastor and play paddleball at Belhaven. You'll be in sports heaven.
Would you pay for these?
Meatcutting and 19 More Strange College Majors Parents Are Paying For
Exploring the undead: University of Baltimore to offer English class on zombies
By Daniel de Vise
Friday, September 10, 2010
Is "Night of the Living Dead" a simple zombie film or a subtle antiwar statement? Precisely when did viral pandemic supplant nuclear radiation as the leading cause of zombification? And which sort of animated dead has the greater potential to frighten: shambler or sprinter?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090802944.html?wprss=rss_metro
College: Liberalism, Incorporated.
Yes let's all play the "let's start a business lottery"... when 70% of businesses fail by 10 years.You could perhaps use your own brain, some motivation and a little imagination. I retired early and pretty well off as a non degreed EE in silicon valley . Probably the most competitive environment on earth for EEs at the time.
Then too there were Jobs, Gates, Wozniak and many others including Zuckerberg who dragged down billions sans degree. However they all had to use their brains along with a lot of hard work and some long hours.
A degree, especially some worthless BA degree in liberal arts crap guarantees you NOTHING!
Yes let's all play the "let's start a business lottery"... when 70% of businesses fail by 10 years.
Who provides the jobs are you and me buying stuff.Did you ever consider who provides jobs?
Did you ever consider who pays all the taxes that keep you in beer and weed???
No?
So you're a government school grad, huh?
Who provides the jobs are you and me buying stuff.
Businesses are not job creators... no business person is going to open a business or even expand one if there's no demand for their products.
Demand comes about when you or I have money in our pockets.
Consumers are the job creators!