Parental support

[Engineer]

I deserve it quite a bit. I think most people deserve a college education regardless.

You don't deserve shit nor are you entitled to it.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Here ya go TridenT

Mash the hell out of it.

 

[busydude]

When you're as poor as I am, there is no financial buffer... It's not like I go, "Hey, I got X amount saved up. I can go buy Y! Woot pants!" And if that was to ever happen, it'd literally take years. (I'm not joking. Years to save $1,000. It's not fucking fun and neither is the resulting product when you have to save so fucking much.)

You always have to live poor as a student. Expecting anything else is over doing it.

Rent, health insurance, books and tuition should be your main priority. Why the fuck are you thinking about saving anything.. unless you are part timing in a high paying job(Which you are not!)

No, you don't deserve college education with this kind of attitude.

 

[olds]

If you grandmother cared about you, she would have left you something. Learn to be self-sufficient and stop hoping for the good will of others. It will carry you far in life.

 

[Gibson486]

WTF, dude!

You are gonna graduate loanless. You are already better off than the majority of the graduating population in that respect. I swear, you whine about every little dam thing. In this case, you really have no right to complain. if you were not in your grandma's will, well then boo hoo. You still do not even have to pay for college.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Just because you feel like you learned something from having to pay for your expenses doesn't mean I will. I've grown up poor so I know the value of a $. I'm a tightass about my money.

Meh. It is no skin off my back if you don't realize that your parents may be giving you a great life lesson by NOT giving you stuff that you honestly don't "need."

That said, it is not worth my time to type out responses to your whining. I'm just going to resort to pics from now on. I think the following are befitting:

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Bolded is where you are wrong. I never felt good about having to save and save AND SAVE my fucking money in school so I could end up spending $5,000+ on newegg for computers. I liked having those computers but I DIDN'T LIKE SAVING. I save just because I have to. I don't want to save. I don't feel good about it. I don't feel like, "Hey I earned this, blahblahblah." I feel like, "Hey, here goes my entire fucking life savings again. Here comes another endless cycle of agony that involves saving money. Here comes the, 'I can't afford this, that, this, that.' FML."

I hate saving money and spending it on shit. It's the worst. I have to part with years of work for some shit that I could have easily gotten if I just had a family that wasn't so inadequate.

Oh, and you're wrong about the whole I'll always want more shit. I'm pretty content when I have something pretty great. The only thing that changes is that the industry keeps advancing and so what I have that is great now will not be that great in a couple years. I'm fine with that as long as I can upgrade every couple years, but that's not how it works for me. I don't get to upgrade so I can play the latest games and run the latest apps.

TridenT.....

I'm in the same boat as you. My college is paid for by the same VA benefits. Economy hit my family hard, so I get no help outside of having my tuition paid for. I'm taking 15 units and working my ass off.

The difference between you and me is that I know I'm not entitled to jack shit. I really don't understand how you became such an entitled fuck despite coming from a poor family.

I think you need to step back and look at what you have. You can make it through college without the need to take out loans. I'm going to be sitting at 15k when I graduate. Your only worry in the world is keeping up with the latest tech. Cry me a fucking river dude. I'd like to see how you would deal with selling one of your prized items to make rent. I had to sell my Marshall half stack (that I worked and paid for) a couple months ago. That was seriously depressing.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Here's the deal: Parents are supposed to plan for their child's future. The bare minimum is raising them until they're 18. That's not good parenting, that's just being a baby-sitter and doing your legal obligation. Since my parents did mostly baby-sitting then that's really not adequate in my eyes. I expect more and demand more because there should be more.

And I expect the same of any children I might have. Although, if I ever have children they will not have to worry a fucking bit.

Until you are a parent, don't judge other parents.

But you are right, your parents are fuckin horrible, you are my proof.

You should be sent to Africa and see what life and this world is about. You live in lala world.

Fuckin kids

 

[Demo24]

First of all you aren't entitled to shit, but everyones already said that. So lol at your parents buying an escalade.

Secondly, god damn you need to see a psychiatrist. Clearly your health shit is covered, so do us all a favor go and get put on the right medication because clearly it is necessary.

Thirdly it's your own damn fault you didnt do FAFSA right and get federal work study funds to work at your school.

 

[waggy]

Here's the deal: Parents are supposed to plan for their child's future. The bare minimum is raising them until they're 18. That's not good parenting, that's just being a baby-sitter and doing your legal obligation. Since my parents did mostly baby-sitting then that's really not adequate in my eyes. I expect more and demand more because there should be more.

And I expect the same of any children I might have. Although, if I ever have children they will not have to worry a fucking bit.

wrong.

A parents job is to make sure the children are productive members of society. The job is to put them in a situation where than succeed on there own! Not to give them handouts until they die.

it seems your parents failed.


yeah you shouldn't worry about having kids that is a long fucking shot.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

yeah you shouldn't worry about having kids that is a long fucking shot.

<rimshot>
Oh, wait...

 

[alfa147x]

Lol you think you are entitled to stuff after 18

 

[TridenT]

TridenT.....

I'm in the same boat as you. My college is paid for by the same VA benefits. Economy hit my family hard, so I get no help outside of having my tuition paid for. I'm taking 15 units and working my ass off.

The difference between you and me is that I know I'm not entitled to jack shit. I really don't understand how you became such an entitled fuck despite coming from a poor family.

I think you need to step back and look at what you have. You can make it through college without the need to take out loans. I'm going to be sitting at 15k when I graduate. Your only worry in the world is keeping up with the latest tech. Cry me a fucking river dude. I'd like to see how you would deal with selling one of your prized items to make rent. I had to sell my Marshall half stack (that I worked and paid for) a couple months ago. That was seriously depressing.

I wouldn't be able to sell anything because I have nothing. I have no prized items because I am poor.

First of all you aren't entitled to shit, but everyones already said that. So lol at your parents buying an escalade.

Secondly, god damn you need to see a psychiatrist. Clearly your health shit is covered, so do us all a favor go and get put on the right medication because clearly it is necessary.

Thirdly it's your own damn fault you didnt do FAFSA right and get federal work study funds to work at your school.

No, FAFSA just fails. Last time I did it it put my families EFC at over 35,000, which is about how much my Dad made in a year. It's a broken system.

I'll be doing it this year anyway, but still... it's a crapshoot.

 

[alfa147x]

I wouldn't be able to sell anything because I have nothing. I have no prized items because I am poor.



No, FAFSA just fails. Last time I did it it put my families EFC at over 35,000, which is about how much my Dad made in a year. It's a broken system.

I'll be doing it this year anyway, but still... it's a crapshoot.

lol @ poor

 

[Mr. Lennon]

I wouldn't be able to sell anything because I have nothing. I have no prized items because I am poor.

No, FAFSA just fails. Last time I did it it put my families EFC at over 35,000, which is about how much my Dad made in a year. It's a broken system.

I'll be doing it this year anyway, but still... it's a crapshoot.

Poor people don't typically own a iPhone. Let's not forget that your are paying $360 year for data on that thing. I'm sure you also probably own a good PC (probably not by your standards). If you were truly poor, things like getting the latest tech would be the last of your worries. Hell, it wouldn't even be a worry since those items are simply unobtainable.

It sucks that your parents are terrible with money...but what can you do? Get over it and focus on your career so you can eventually buy whatever the fuck you want.

 

[TridenT]

Poor people don't typically own a iPhone. Let's not forget that your are paying $360 year for data on that thing. I'm sure you also probably own a good PC (probably not by your standards). If you were truly poor, things like getting the latest tech would be the last of your worries. Hell, it wouldn't even be a worry since those items are simply unobtainable.

It sucks that your parents are terrible with money...but what can you do? Get over it and focus on your career so you can eventually buy whatever the fuck you want.

It's not $360/yr. It's less. My parents are paying for the cellphone plan currently. It's like $35/month including tax to have me on. It's not very much for a cell plan. It makes less sense to have me off one than on.

Edit: Btw, you haven't looked at poor people recently! I bought the thing when I was with my parents anyway. I didn't have rent to pay back then. Now I do. Now I have to pay a lot more for food too. (Not just because I don't live my parents but because it's more expensive here too)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's not $360/yr. It's less. My parents are paying for the cellphone plan currently. It's like $35/month including tax to have me on. It's not very much for a cell plan. It makes less sense to have me off one than on.

More fail. $35 x 12 = $420/yr :biggrin:

 

[TridenT]

More fail. $35 x 12 = $420/yr :biggrin:

That is data + voice + txt + whatever-else-there-is. Data alone is $25/month. I'm going to probably jump down to the $15/month plan because I don't think I use more than 200mb a month since I am near wi-fi a lot. Even then, I don't think I go over 1.2gb so it would be the same most months or less.

 

[Aikouka]

I used a desktop all throughout college. A laptop would have been handier for when I went home, but then I would have been one of those silly kids stuck playing Counter Strike, because that's all their laptop could handle.

Also, a SSD in a laptop is nice, but it is far from a requirement as is USB 3.0.

I try to sleep with a thousand different fucking activity lights going off?

When I used a DGL-4300 router (it has rather bright blue LEDs), all I did was place an envelope in front of it to block the LEDs. You can do the same with a piece of electrical tape as well.

Is it wrong that the fist thing I though when clicking that link is that girl looks hot? MUCH less so after watching the vid of course.

Why's that? It might be a silly rant, but she's right. The idiots need to turn their god damn lights on in the rain. It's actually a law in some states that your lights must be on if your wipers are going.

True. And for something like programming as you mentioned a netbook can get you buy fairly late into a programming degree. I'm just spoiled by the uber machines I like to buy. Not that I can be said to afford them.

Bud, I have to stop you here. A real programmer uses dual monitors.

So, if he's dead set on getting a laptop... he needs one of this puppies:

http://www.dailytech.com/gScreen+Un...+Dual+17inch+Screen+Notebook/article22568.htm

 

[Nemesis 1]

I know most of you were born in caves and didn't grow up with wolves... instead you grew up alone because you're such a beast. You eat the hearts of newborns and live on the suffering of your minions, but some of us grew up with families and shit. So, spare me your 'unique' story.

Cliffs - I'm in college. Mom got inheritance from dead mother. Parents spend it on stupid shit(Escalade, useless renovation on house, et cetera). I think they should be spending some of it on me because I was the favorite grandchild. (Most promise, most potential, spent the most time with, bonded with most, et cetera) I need a nice laptop that will last me 3 years in college (Think MBP price). The only job I can get has me working less than 12 hours a week because it doesn't have a lot of business.

What do?

And, for the rest of you... Do you get any kind of parental support for college?

Man trident you have posted some sad shit . But you have outdone your self this time. It doesn't matter what you think . In my case as a grand parent I would give ya a share . Until you say you should recieve it than you would get nothing .

The proper way is to give it to the eldest son . This is how you learn if you were raised in a house or a home . If brought up properly the eldest male will do whats correct . In todays world Only 1 in 5 million would do the correct thing .
As a moral type parent and grand parent . If I was your grandfather . I would get more pleasure from burning it . Than giving it to you and your proper rearing. You didn't live in a home but a house.

 

[TridenT]

Man trident you have posted some sad shit . But you have outdone your self this time. It doesn't matter what you think . In my case as a grand parent I would give ya a share . Until you say you should recieve it than you would get nothing .

The proper way is to give it to the eldest son . This is how you learn if you were raised in a house or a home . If brought up properly the eldest male will do whats correct . In todays world Only 1 in 5 million would do the correct thing .
As a moral type parent and grand parent . If I was your grandfather . I would get more pleasure from burning it . Than giving it to you and your proper rearing. You didn't live in a home but a house.

Half of that makes no sense...

I used a desktop all throughout college. A laptop would have been handier for when I went home, but then I would have been one of those silly kids stuck playing Counter Strike, because that's all their laptop could handle.

Also, a SSD in a laptop is nice, but it is far from a requirement as is USB 3.0.



When I used a DGL-4300 router (it has rather bright blue LEDs), all I did was place an envelope in front of it to block the LEDs. You can do the same with a piece of electrical tape as well.



Why's that? It might be a silly rant, but she's right. The idiots need to turn their god damn lights on in the rain. It's actually a law in some states that your lights must be on if your wipers are going.



Bud, I have to stop you here. A real programmer uses dual monitors.

So, if he's dead set on getting a laptop... he needs one of this puppies:

http://www.dailytech.com/gScreen+Un...+Dual+17inch+Screen+Notebook/article22568.htm

If I plan to really use this laptop for something beyond super basic school work, then those things are really a requirement. And I'd like to use it for something beyond schoolwork. Now I am at the point where I am like, "ahh. $1500... should I really be spending any of it at all? Savings instinct is kicking in. Save-save-save-save for disaster..." When really if I had a disaster I could probably get bailed out anyway, because it would be an unforeseen disaster.

I don't really want to put tape on the laptop. I currently have this stupid modem in my room that is insanely bright. I can't cover it up though because then it might overheat. (It has holes all over it for ventilation, thus light goes everywhere)

And yeah... I've been dying for dual monitors for a while now. It's nice. I can't imagine programming on a laptop being extremely fun to start, but it would be better than iPhone/nothing.

Blah. Idk what to do nao. Fry's has some cheap laptops for sale, but I don't think their processors are adequate for 1080p video. (i3-370m or something)

 

[ch33zw1z]

So, if he's dead set on getting a laptop... he needs one of this puppies:

http://www.dailytech.com/gScreen+Un...+Dual+17inch+Screen+Notebook/article22568.htm

That thing is awesome.

 

[rasczak]

All I can say is this. SHUT THE FUCK UP. QUIT BITCHING ABOUT WHAT YOU DO NOT DESERVE, FINISH SCHOOL AND BUY YOUR OWN SHIT.


Ahhhhhh I feel better now.

 

[stargazr]

And, for the rest of you... Do you get any kind of parental support for college?

Fvck no, my dad told me "If you want to go to college you can pay for it yourself". But it didn't really matter, I didn't want to go at the time. I went through an apprenticeship in a skilled trade instead.

Of course that was a long time ago. I doubt many would be interested in taking that path today.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Fvck no, my dad told me "If you want to go to college you can pay for it yourself". But it didn't really matter, I didn't want to go at the time. I went through an apprenticeship in a skilled trade instead.

Of course that was a long time ago. I doubt many would be interested in taking that path today.

I wouldn't be to sure of that. A few of my friends went the tradesman route, if I had the opportunity then I may have as well. My older son(now 5) is very good with is hands, building all sorts of contraptions with anything laying around, understands data/power basic cabling and electrical safety so far. I would not be surprised one bit if he chose that route too. Don't sell yourself short. Without tradesmen where would we be?