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Daughter just sent home from college
RoadTrip
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Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?
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Pic pls
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I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.Pitchfork51 said:Pic pls
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The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.DuckHHunterisafag said:
I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.Pitchfork51 said:Pic pls
Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it.
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I might have done that at some point.PurpleThrobber said:
The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.DuckHHunterisafag said:
I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.Pitchfork51 said:Pic pls
Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it. -
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
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Education bubble.DuckHHunterisafag said:why I'm paying $70K a year
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$70 k, the fuck? You know there’s decent public schools for a fraction of the price. You best pods with @creepycoug or what?
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P.S. now I feel bad for bullying you into getting a Wam badge.
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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.DuckHHunterisafag said:Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?
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." -
Respected the sanctity of family?Fire_Marshall_Bill said:
I might have done that at some point.PurpleThrobber said:
The Throbber respects the sanctity of family.DuckHHunterisafag said:
I don't want to be responsible for PurpleThrobber's soul.Pitchfork51 said:Pic pls
Well, kids anyway. Not above stealing a hot wife. Hell, @Doog_de_Jour has made an artform of it. -
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.creepycoug said:
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.DuckHHunterisafag said:Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?
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." -
Herein lies the difference between Hardcore Husky and all those other sitesPitchfork51 said:Pic pls
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I was talking to a friend about this stuff too. I think there might be some unintended consequences from school and college closures.DuckHHunterisafag said:
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.creepycoug said:
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.DuckHHunterisafag said:Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?
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." -
You sound poorMikeDamone 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
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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.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
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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 said:
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.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
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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.SFGbob said:
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 said:
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.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
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You Bernie Bros just can’t accept defeat.DuckHHunterisafag said:Makes me wonder why I'm paying $70K a year if it's so easy for them to put all classes online?
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Dominated by libs. Overpriced, shitty quality and mostly counterproductive economically. Go figure.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
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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.SFGbob said:
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 said:
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.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
