Posted on 08/26/2017 12:35:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The $5000 of unmet financial need discussed with graduation rates. That unmet financial need is usually covered with student loans.
Two funniest things about that movie: ‘Dean Martin’, and Kurt Vonnegut showing up at the door.
The answer to the final question of the Final Exam is.....................”Four?”
You are quite resourceful LesbianThesbianGymansticMidget! A college experience Ferris Bueller would be envious of!
The movie was very funny throughout.
You can watch the full film here on YouTube.
Back to School (1986) - Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIYAlAU&q=back+to+school+dangerfield
Do you recall at all what you were there majoring in? Lol!
...”Political Science”, maybe?
:)
I graduated in the 80’s, but even then I lived in a modern campus apartment with a private bedroom that had a closet, chest, and desk. I shared a living room with cable television, kitchen, and bathroom with three others.
Today daughter lives in what is likely considered a luxury dorm and I’m glad.
As a freshman, my son had the luxury of moving into a brand spanking new dorm. The room was nothing special, two beds, two closets, two desks and maybe 100 Sq feet of move around space. For him, best part was he lived in a quad which consisted of 4 dorm rooms, bathroom to support multiple people, large sitting area with couches and a ping pong table as well as a kitchen which was cleaned by someone hired by the university. That service was paid for by the students and that’s how it was determined whether you lived in a quad.
After freshman year, my son moved into “The Pit”, which was appropriately named.
How long has it been since you were in college? Must be a long time.
Homework? You're kidding, right? Study? Why would they need to do that? If they choose their major and classes carefully they can take courses that have no exams, only require a paper (downloaded from the internet) and attendance is not required.
Pop the government supported education debt bubble
That is a funny story. I invented one. Today it is one. Business Analysis. Took a lot of discussions with the dean of the biz school to convince him to allow me to do it. It was easy. I got to pick whatever I was interested in. I took meteorology and boy oh boy did that help me when as my first job I was trading ag commodities. Took insurance law. Took biz law. Linear programming. (I traded physicals internationally, not paper, just used paper to hedge my physical positions.) *
* Confucian Curse: May your life be interesting **
** My first couple of jobs were extremely interesting. About lost my mind.
I have some crazy stories from that 6 years of my life. PM me if you want to know about Mexico/Brownsville port, Netherlands, Nigeria, Haiti, Guatemala, St Lucia, St Vincent, Jamaica or Taiwan. I have a great one about each. Crazy as hell stuff.
“most nights at the library hitting the books”
The library is now superfluous. Most books and academic papers are now available online.
the library is the best place to study :)
“the library is the best place to study :)”
Well, unless, of course, if the subject of studying is women, then, yes, the library is the best place to study.
It didn’t take long for the late boomer gang to work through the system like a chicken through a snake. In the 70s after Vietnam most of the dorms were just about standing room only and they were even forced to open some of the older ones like Parker. Life in the newer dorms was a small two person room, a hotplate for weekends, popcorn maker maybe, no fridge, two closets, a built in chest, two square desks, two beds, lots of storage over the closets, communal bathroom and two formals rooms we could set up a ping pong table in.
Most of us who had serious degree programs got plenty of exercise walking to class. Never had much time for intramural sports or the recreation facility. I was too busy going to class and working my way through school. I moved out of the dorms after two years, rented a small house with a roommate and my grades improved markedly. We were now grown up and very serious about school and career foundation.
I made it on less than $200 a month plus tuition and books back then. Having $10 extra was a huge deal and I could actually go on sort of a date. I also was able to borrow money from Dad to buy a basic four function calculator since the slide rule was just not fast enough. We called the basic calculator a “four banger” it was made by Casio and it cost $125.00. The high end ones did square roots and logs and were the HP21 but they were just far too expensive for me so I made do with the four banger and log and trig tables for almost two years. I managed to land a nice Christmas Break job welding fence and earned enough money to buy a SR-50 I believe it was.
Gasoline was almost 30 cents a gallon and you could not get it on weekends most places so you had to budget and plan the 180 mile trip home and hope someone did not break the lock on the fuel tank in the truck in the parking lot and steal your gas. It was a long trip home at the nationally mandated 55 mph.
I considered myself acceptably well off. Other kids I went to high school with went to work or a local JUCO then on to a regional college and not the big state university. None of us went to anything but a state school or even thought about anything else. Other people went to name schools, private schools or Ivy League. Out of state tuition was for rich people, very rich people.
The advent of the guaranteed student loan has caused a lot of foolish people to spend a lot of money they don’t have foolishly. We did what we did and lived like we lived because we had little other choice and we all did it so nobody felt deprived. We also did it because our parents did it after the war and felt very fortunate. I know I could not wait to go home to great cooking, a quiet place to sleep and no crowds of people when we got a break. And it was a break from a very intense lifestyle of work, learning and deadlines. Somehow, with all the 18 to 21 hour semesters I managed to graduate with an engineering degree and good enough grades to start work with Exxon.
My how things have changed in 40 years. Again.
The bottom picture is what I had and it was in the fancy dorm with A/C... in Texas. You don’t want to know what the old dorms looked like where a coat of paint was the only improvement since my mother attended. I had FUN and knew nearly everyone on campus. Our daughter insisted on living off campus in a shared apt that cost more than triple our house mortgage. Her rent dollars, not mine. Sadly, she never experienced “college life”.
They didn’t make little fridges or microwaves in my day. We were only allowed a popcorn maker. But Spaghetti-Os and boxed mac ‘n cheese could be cooked in the popcorn maker and wieners on the clothes iron. We made do with cold tap water for a glass of instant tea.
The campus cafeteria was closed on the weekends so I’d have one 45 cent can of Spaghetti-Os on Saturday. For Sunday, I’d take $2 and walk down to the fried chicken place and buy a snack box (chicken thigh, fries and biscuit) which left enough change to stop by the gas station coke machine. Today’s kids would freak but we were happy.
It was $7/semester to not have a dorm mate. After having a doper slut (think T. Cullen Davis crowd hookers) my first summer, a ding bat salutatorian who was on a free ride scholarship but cried over bf back home so left two weeks into the first fall semester and another ding bat who cooed like a dove 24/7 first spring semester, I gladly paid that ridiculously hilarious $7.
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