Articles like this make me feel much better about my choices!
If he had gone R0TC, he’d be debt free now.
Cry me a river. Articles like this help reinforce my belief that nobody should be allowed past the 8th grade without a course in basic personal finance.
Not all of the education you get at college happens in a classroom.
The author has actually received quite an education about prioritizing and debt.
Monster search shows 2 jobs available nationally.
There is only one solution: those of us who went to state school and didn’t buy things we couldn’t afford have to pick up the tab for the Garners and those like them.
I once made a bargain I later regretted, too. Happens to us all. It’s called reality, bub. Nobody forced me to buy that car, just like nobody forced you to take a useless major in college. (Get over it )
If one of the democrat party communist candidates becomes president, we will be.
By the way, have you been to a college campus and looked at the living arrangements for students recently? They have campus housimg consisting of new apartments with granite counter tops. They are very comfortable, and I would assume, also very expensive. You would think that while they have little income and are making an investment on their future, students would look for every means of cutting expenses. That means not borrowing ridiculous sums of money for the wasted overhead of comfortable living.
I screwed up big time. I sent my son to college when I should have bought him a McDonalds.
According to this ethics expert his parents, grandmother and the schools allowed him to go astray.
Of course he admittedly had bad grades in high school but somehow thought if he went to an 'elite' school he too would become elite. Somehow he also thought if he got his Ph.D. he could get a high paying job in academia. He really is a moron.
He never mentions why he never continued to get his Ph.D. He probably washed out. If you're in a doctoral program and one of your advisors suggests that you drop out and go part time - TAKE THE HINT. You are NOT a strong doctoral candidate. LOL
The guy is a moron who thinks Elizabeth (lying indian) Warren will now save him.
OK. What subject matter did he study?
I have never found the value of my education in science and engineering to be "questionable".
There is no profession, however well-paying, that makes a $200 000 debt at age 22 or 24 “manageable”.
I thought I had avoided all college loans (2 out, one freshman, 4 more to go), but I just found out that my daughter was “awarded” a loan for $5000 that it took me a week and four documents to undo.
This will get worse until someone puts a stop to it.
In the meantime, the lending entities and the colleges need to be placed at risk (as well as the foolish borrowers).
Reading crap like this, from these poor deluded no long term vision idiots, makes me smile at all those fellow former USAF members, who used their technical training, and afforded educational opportunities, to obtain their technical degrees BEFORE they left the military!!!
For example, the College Level Equivalency Program, circa 1978, allowed one to partake in scholastic examinations and attain up to 2 years worth of college class credits. An airman’s technical training, when weighted through the Community College of the Air Force, could attain another entire college class year’s worth of credit. That is a possible THREE YEARS WORTH of accredited college credits.
And all of that, while on active duty, serving in the U.S. Air Force.
No huge college debt was accrued.
MSM continues to pave the way for the Democrats to roll out a big Student Loan Forgiveness proposal this Fall.
Clearly this guy is an idiot. Unfortunately, idiocy is not a crime, so he simply had to ask and they gave him all the debt that he wanted.
Not disagreeing with the commenters on the thread and I do recognize the unfairness of it all.....BUT
Student loan debt must be allowed to be discharged in bankruptcy. In this way he can eliminate some, and restructure some, so that the debt is adjusted so a “bioethicist” can afford it.
This, and only this will fix the college debt problem. It will shake the foundations of academia - but they need to be shaken.
Allowing for student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy will bring this nonsense to a screeching halt. If you cannot demonstrate the ability to repay, you do not get to borrow the money.
Tuitions will drop precipitously, because nobody will be able to borrow money to attend college.
Yes, it’s unfair to those who were financially responsible, perhaps did not go to college because of the cost - but that’s always the case in bankruptcy.
In this case (and millions of others), the lenders aren’t getting repaid by the borrower, no matter what they think
There is no positive in trying to force someone to repay a debt that they will never be able to repay.
It’s easy to castigate this guy as a moron, but remember, the basic decisions that led him to this point were made when he was 17 or 18 years old and then to a lesser extent, after four additional years of liberal academic indoctrination. Go lightly on him!
We should find the guy who held a gun to this idiot's head and not only forced him to borrow money for college but then major is something stupid.