Daughter just sent home from college

RoadTrip

Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?

Pitchfork51

Pic pls

RoadTrip

Pitchfork51 said:

Pic pls

I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.

PurpleThrobber

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Pitchfork51 said:

Pic pls

I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.

The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.

Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

PurpleThrobber said:

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Pitchfork51 said:

Pic pls

I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.

The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.

Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it.

I might have done that at some point.

MikeDamone

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

MontlakeBridgeTroll

DuckHHunterisafag said:

why I'm paying $70K a year

Education bubble.

YellowSnow

$70 k, the fuck? You know there’s decent public schools for a fraction of the price. You best pods with @creepycoug or what?

YellowSnow

P.S. now I feel bad for bullying you into getting a Wam badge.

creepycoug

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?

Same. Two different institutions. We have friends in Boston who will house them indefinitely. Both appealed to be in the group who gets to stay on campus, where frankly they'd be better off than getting in a tube to fly here (Seattle). One of them has a reactive immune system that tends to go overboard, particular upper respiratory, so while she's young and strong, it would be no picnic for her to get this.

Yeah, all the schools figured out real quickly that just "canceling semester" wasn't going to work. Can you imagine being at the meeting?

"OK, people. The government says send them home, and since more kids apply each year than we have room for, just tell them tough shit and get the fuck outta here. We'll see you next fall. Or whatever."

"Uh, sir. What about refunds?"

"Refunds? Refunds for what?"

"Well, the housing and tuition costs per student, sir. For the full-pays (like Creep's kids), it's somewhere around $36,000 for the semester. They'll want partial room and board reimbursement for the days they weren't on campus, and if they don't complete the semester, they'll want all of the spring tuition back. Sir."

"Oh fuck. I'm a university president. I quote Aristotle. I don't deal with real life money and people shit. That can't happen. Get the IT people in here, stat! And here I thought I would be able to add 2.5 months to my summer vacation."

They had no choice. Harvard, with $44 Billion to play with, is about the only school who could say, "Sure, fuck it. Write the checks. We don't care."

Doog_de_Jour

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

PurpleThrobber said:

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Pitchfork51 said:

Pic pls

I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.

The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.

Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it.

I might have done that at some point.

Respected the sanctity of family?

RoadTrip

creepycoug said:

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?

Same. Two different institutions. We have friends in Boston who will house them indefinitely. Both appealed to be in the group who gets to stay on campus, where frankly they'd be better off than getting in a tube to fly here (Seattle). One of them has a reactive immune system that tends to go overboard, particular upper respiratory, so while she's young and strong, it would be no picnic for her to get this.

Yeah, all the schools figured out real quickly that just "canceling semester" wasn't going to work. Can you imagine being at the meeting?

"OK, people. The government says send them home, and since more kids apply each year than we have room for, just tell them tough shit and get the fuck outta here. We'll see you next fall. Or whatever."

"Uh, sir. What about refunds?"

"Refunds? Refunds for what?"

"Well, the housing and tuition costs per student, sir. For the full-pays (like Creep's kids), it's somewhere around $36,000 for the semester. They'll want partial room and board reimbursement for the days they weren't on campus, and if they don't complete the semester, they'll want all of the spring tuition back. Sir."

"Oh fuck. I'm a university president. I quote Aristotle. I don't deal with real life money and people shit. That can't happen. Get the IT people in here, stat! And here I thought I would be able to add 2.5 months to my summer vacation."

They had no choice. Harvard, with $44 Billion to play with, is about the only school who could say, "Sure, fuck it. Write the checks. We don't care."

OMG I just got back to my hotel room where I was charging my phone. Your post is EXACTLY what I just outlined for the younger families on my youngest's baseball team...I'm the "old guy". Fuck the "institutions of higher learning." They're all about to be exposed as the scams they are.

AtomicPiss

Pitchfork51 said:

Pic pls

Herein lies the difference between Hardcore Husky and all those other sites

GrundleStiltzkin

DuckHHunterisafag said:

creepycoug said:

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?

Same. Two different institutions. We have friends in Boston who will house them indefinitely. Both appealed to be in the group who gets to stay on campus, where frankly they'd be better off than getting in a tube to fly here (Seattle). One of them has a reactive immune system that tends to go overboard, particular upper respiratory, so while she's young and strong, it would be no picnic for her to get this.

Yeah, all the schools figured out real quickly that just "canceling semester" wasn't going to work. Can you imagine being at the meeting?

"OK, people. The government says send them home, and since more kids apply each year than we have room for, just tell them tough shit and get the fuck outta here. We'll see you next fall. Or whatever."

"Uh, sir. What about refunds?"

"Refunds? Refunds for what?"

"Well, the housing and tuition costs per student, sir. For the full-pays (like Creep's kids), it's somewhere around $36,000 for the semester. They'll want partial room and board reimbursement for the days they weren't on campus, and if they don't complete the semester, they'll want all of the spring tuition back. Sir."

"Oh fuck. I'm a university president. I quote Aristotle. I don't deal with real life money and people shit. That can't happen. Get the IT people in here, stat! And here I thought I would be able to add 2.5 months to my summer vacation."

They had no choice. Harvard, with $44 Billion to play with, is about the only school who could say, "Sure, fuck it. Write the checks. We don't care."

OMG I just got back to my hotel room where I was charging my phone. Your post is EXACTLY what I just outlined for the younger families on my youngest's baseball team...I'm the "old guy". Fuck the "institutions of higher learning." They're all about to be exposed as the scams they are.

I was talking to a friend about this stuff too. I think there might be some unintended consequences from school and college closures.

insinceredawg

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

You sound poor

YellowSnow

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

Moore's Law aside the reason college is so bloody expensive is because the government screwed up the marketplace. Anytime you give consumers more purchasing power than they otherwise should have - i.e., subsidized student loans - massive inflation will occur.

SFGbob

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

Moore's Law aside the reason college is so bloody expensive is because the government screwed up the marketplace. Anytime you give consumers more purchasing power than they otherwise should have - i.e., subsidized student loans - massive inflation will occur.

Same with the healthcare marketplace. It's not a coincidence that they are the two areas of the economy where prices have far out stripped the rates of inflation.

YellowSnow

SFGbob said:

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

Moore's Law aside the reason college is so bloody expensive is because the government screwed up the marketplace. Anytime you give consumers more purchasing power than they otherwise should have - i.e., subsidized student loans - massive inflation will occur.

Same with the healthcare marketplace. It's not a coincidence that they are the two areas of the economy where prices have far out stripped the rates of inflation.

Yup. Health insurance is analogous to using auto insurance to pay for new brakes or an oil change. The consumer has no idea what shit costs.

HHusky

DuckHHunterisafag said:

Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?

You Bernie Bros just can’t accept defeat.

TurdBomber

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

Dominated by libs. Overpriced, shitty quality and mostly counterproductive economically. Go figure.

TurdBomber

SFGbob said:

YellowSnow said:

MikeDamone said:

This proves the price of college is bullshit. With online classes and technology it should be half of what it cost 20 years ago. Like everything else where technology improved and costs went down comparatively. It’s a scam

Moore's Law aside the reason college is so bloody expensive is because the government screwed up the marketplace. Anytime you give consumers more purchasing power than they otherwise should have - i.e., subsidized student loans - massive inflation will occur.

Same with the healthcare marketplace. It's not a coincidence that they are the two areas of the economy where prices have far out stripped the rates of inflation.

Fucking Obama-led Dems had their chance with the public option. But when Wall Street said "fuck no," Obama complied and never brought it up again, even though he ran on it.