i get free tuition...but i'm paying 600 bucks/month for rent, then there's electricity, phone, groceries, etc. i think it would have been cheaper if i got someone to pay for my living expenses, and i'd just pay for my tuition!
aurasing, for $600/month, you must be living either in Bay Area or NY! Tuition + everything else here is about $14/year, and but loans and grants cover most of it.
In 1985, my University of Wisconsin-Madison tuition was $679 per semester, with another $200 or so for books. I'm sure it's gone up since then. My brother went to UW-Milwaukee's school of Engineering and he's got a student loan of $20K he's repaying (he worked the whole time he was in school, so after scholarships and grants and his salary, that's what was left).
let's see, this semester is $500 for books, and what, $500 for transportation... $ 1000 for food. i commute...
if i live on campus, it'd be $8000 for this semester (nyc is a pain), and books would still be $500... and maybe $1000 for books too, and $100 for transportation...
Used to be $20k a year for undergrad in a private college
with about 80% covered by grants. Now it's $2500 for class , 2 classes a quarter x3 quarters=$15 k a year grad school
My parents paid for my university, I did a 9 month technical diploma after getting my undergrad and it set me back $24k. I am of the opinion now that the worth of an undergrad degree is so little that unless you can get it paid for or are POSITIVE that you're going to a GOOD grad school with gauranteed money after (like medicine), then its a waste of time. I know far far too many people who owe $50k and have only a half-assed history or sociology degree to show for it. Waste of money. Big waste. I have an ex-friend who is now pursuing more and more "things" in philosophy and spending a crapload of cash to do so. For what I ask? He'll be paying loans for decades.
People say that you need a university degree to get work now. Well that isn't true...4 years of school plus a degree in history isn't gonna get you jack. I've got another friend who, $60k in debt with a sociology degree (crappy grades), has a goal now to be assistant manager at the university bar. What in hell did he go to school for? To rack up a loan! If you want a great job chances are you'll need to do university somewhere in there, but university sure as hell doesn't ensure you'll get a good job. Most people who leave seem to have no idea what they want to do and that is because learning how to write an essay teachs no real practical skills.
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