The Say Anything Thread - Take 7

[Nessa 23]

i can't believe i'm gonan have to buy a fukcing heater for work

[Nessa 23]

oh dayum, i was taking a look on college education, 4 years public college is around 180k , ivy league is 500k, can you imagine? who can afford that?

[Nessa 23]

in brazil the best colleges are public (and public in brazil means free). the private one i went, if i double how much i used to pay 10 years ago, and let's say it's 500/month, that'll be a total of 24k for 4 years.

[Amby 490]

Morning pregnant peeps and peeps who want to be pregnant.

Nessa you could go to community college. They're very affordable.

[DairyFarmer 1]

In Australia it costs now. But they have this scheme called HECS Higher Education Contribution Scheme, basically, its a loan from the governement which you pay back once you start working at as a percentage of your income, taken out with tax. The annual HECS debt starts from around $9,000 a year to about $45,000 I think.

My parents generation got free education but two years before I got there, it was all taken away.

[Amby 490]

I go to a private university and it's about $35k/yr. I'm switching to a different one next semester because they have a better biology program

Edited December 17, 2008 by Amby

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

oh dayum, i was taking a look on college education, 4 years public college is around 180k , ivy league is 500k, can you imagine? who can afford that?

in-state tuition at rutgers (my alma mater) is $11k per academic year. What public college wants 180k???

[chri'stina 190]

I am sure it can be a lot cheaper than 180K for 4 years...It's been 5 years since I graduated from a public university but I didn't live on campus and it was maybe 8K a year(I had financial aid though), even if you double that for inflation, nowhere near 180K for 4 years. They must be adding in tons of expenses or a very expensive college IMO.

[Nessa 23]

it's a college fund calculator i found online.

http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance...-you-save-9648/

[chri'stina 190]

oops posted same time as AJ

[jundp 191]

1. There's an idiot in the Naturalization forum that hath pissed me off.

2. Nessa, I don't think most public unis here are that expensive. Mine was about $6000 a year, and I think it's about that for UW (which is an excellent school)

3. Amby, good morning.

[Nessa 23]

it says i have to save 300 a month for 18 years i'll just sign up for every sports thing available and hope he becomes good in one of them and gets a scholarship

Edited December 17, 2008 by Nessa

[jundp 191]

I am sure it can be a lot cheaper than 180K for 4 years...It's been 5 years since I graduated from a public university but I didn't live on campus and it was maybe 8K a year(I had financial aid though), even if you double that for inflation, nowhere near 180K for 4 years. They must be adding in tons of expenses or a very expensive college IMO.

They do add tons of expenses. When my son was looking at UW for total expenses, they had included like $2500 a semester for random stuff like gas, food, etc. I don't remember the exact amounts, but I remember thinking it was insane.

[Amby 490]

or you could be like a lot of americans these days and make him pay for his own school

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Edited December 17, 2008 by A.J.