Posted on 11/29/2012 5:18:13 AM PST by No One Special
Brings to mind a scene from the film "Brazil" where the jackbooted government thug is interrogating the hero.
"Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating."
I took some over my summer breaks, and it was brought up in many interviews. View is that if you are not ready for “real” college, you are not going to be a serious candidate.
Depends on the degree, but the diploma is not a statement of knowledge, but a brand. People will select the better brands.
I know people with kids, who have been LIVING on student loan money for the last several years. I imagine there are several million more just like them, only carrying enough classes to keep getting the loans.
I can only imagine what happens when they realize that Santa Government wants it’s money back, regardless.
And, every four years, from now on, they can go to the campuses and say “If you vote Democrat, we might pay off your student loans for you!”
My tuition at an “expensive” private college in the mid-80’s was around $350 a credit hour.
This year, at Purdue, a state-supported school, it’s $750 for general classes, $1,200 AND UP, plus fees, for “technical” classes.
don’t = doesn’t
There are times I really hate the auto complete function on my phone.
Depends on the CC, and the courses you take.
Everything I took was directly transferrable at full credit for my engineering degree. Back then (1970s) the prices were different, but not like today.
What WAS different was the quality of instruction. My calculus classes were taught by a guy who drew in multiple colors graphs of differentiation, integration and analytical geometry from a book that was very readable and understandable.
My poor buddy who went directly to the four year school was taught by a Chinese TA who wrote on the board simultaneously with both hands, and whose book was gobbledygook.
Guess who's much better at calculus still ?
But having that on my transcript came back to bite me a few times. Employers and recently grad schools ask why I took the classes at a community college, and one stated that is a “worrisome” thing.
The actual diploma comes from a four-year/”real” college ... most employers don’t look beyond that. My cousin went to two or three years of CC and then went to the ‘big/real’ college the last two years - saved a ton of money and I don’t think his diploma from the big college has ever been questioned. Bottom line, you can save a ton of money doing this, especially with ‘prerequisite’ classes.
“Why did we ever allow ANYONE to vote? People cannot be trusted with such a heady responsibility.”
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More and more I get to believe that thoughts on this subject expresse in Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” have great merit: military service is required to be a voter, aka “a citizen”. There may be other routes to be a citizen, but that is a primary one.
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