So this summer will end with having wasted a lot of hours for nothing, my income down to about 40% of its usual level, and gained nothing for course credit. And out to SIX FUCKING YEARS. AND 82000 DOLLARS.
82 grand should mean, oh, I went to UMass Amherst, itself a second-rate school, but better than this third-rate shithole, got to live on or around campus, which is itself much more enjoyable than living at fucking home, and got a better goddamned education in the process.
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At the end of the day, where you live during school or even where you went (to some extent, UoP excluded) doesn't matter as long as it is ABET accredited. You can learn just about anything anywhere if you want to learn it.
UML has been chanting that load of bullshit at everyone, second only to the waving of statistics about how good engineering income starting salaries are. I think it's a USNews report that lists off the differences in salary between various schools for various majors, and the difference is massive. Amherst beats out Lowell by something like $8000. WPI is higher than that. MIT is unsurprisingly the king.
If nothing else, the name gets you in the door. Or a bigger alumni network with better connections help, and Lowell is a fairly small school where most of its graduates don't go anywhere except within the nearest fifty miles.
And where you live during school just controls whether you had fun during it or not. And living at home is a recipe for no fucking fun at all. Living on or near campus for a major party school with the population of a medium sized town = win. Living at home driving to a 50% commuter school in Shitsville, USA = fail.
I understand all of this, but the fact of the matter is that once you've had your first job, no one will give a crap about your GPA or where you graduated from.
You're there for an education, first and foremost.
