So uhm. I go to a 40K$ University and I uhh...

...happened to mistake the exam days under the pressure of studying multiple subjects. So effectively I just missed an exam worth 30% of my final grade, and I kinda need to take it to pass, and continue studying at this university...so...



My life, it flashes before my eyes.

Edit**: ...and I just posted this in random instead of IB. I'm on a roll today baby.. seriously kill me.

Random stranger just passing by, don't mind me.

Sometimes it's nice to go for a walk through the forum. You can see/hear the funniest things... Heh heh heh, studying.

Hah.

>Paying for education. LOL

#Socialism

Dayum, that sucks ):

How I envy your system when the average income of an American household is half that of most tuitions of a college/university. Also too many people are in debt because of school and the tuition for a college/university is rising.

My beliefs are not influenced by political dogma.

Higher education is an investment, and it should be treated as so. It is a privilege. That said, while rising tuition causes are indeed a player in college obtained debt - it would be more prudent to point to and observe the number of people who withdraw from these institutions without obtaining anything.

The Harvard study’s assertions are supported by data collected by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for its report “Education at a Glance 2010.” Among 18 countries tracked by the OECD, the United States finished last (46 percent) for the percentage of students who completed college once they started it. That puts the United States behind Japan (89 percent), and former Soviet-bloc states such as Slovakia (63 percent) and Poland (61 percent).

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Edit: I misspoke, "It is not a privilege." I meant, "It is a privilege."

It does a great deal to not have a debt post 4 years at a university or college especially when more than likely you need more than a BA for greater pay or a better job depending on your degree. Americans in general lack a good education because depending on the area you live in you won't get the greatest education(unless you can afford private school, which most Americans can't). The average American does not have the income or salary to full on pay for higher education without feeling the financial blows that have put Americans in a great deal of debt and despair. Working 2 to 3 jobs to pay for higher education is not a solution and there is a reason why some have suggested to holding off to going into higher education because of the cost.

Perhaps I didn't phrase it properly, I'm not arguing about debt nor the inability for people to get into private universities - I'm arguing about the reasons why they get into debt. The only points which I see you address the same issue is with degree choices: e.g. BA vs. BS.

As I said before, higher education is an investment. Anyone that attempts to receive it should be either wealthy enough to recover from the financial blows, or be aiming to achieve financial profit from the venture. Currently, the system the federal grant system uses, allows the unambitious free passes into higher education - even though the practice promotes financial self destruction.

You may find this enlightening in discerning the relationships between education and income and then age and income.

Well, it's not much better here tbh. As you know we all collectively pay for the educational system through taxes. By the time of our death we'll probably have payed more than those $40k through that system, but it's not noticeable in the same way as paying a huge load of cash upfront.

Student loans are another big problem here too, since even if we have "free" education, we don't have free housing, food, clothes, transit and so on and most students rely on loans to be able to buy food for the day and pay their rent. Personally I've been lucky and will at the end of my studies this summer only have a single year of student loans, but that still amounts up to somewhere around 9000 - 10 000$ in debt.

Edit: Just like Fruid says, higher education is a privilege and an investment, and need to be treated as such.

Yea, that happened to me on Tuesday... Surprisingly, the teacher emailed me yesterday and asked me to come in and take it today instead. Luck, I suppose.

Email your prof IMMEDIATELY. Let them know how much it means to you and offer to do a makeup exam ASAP before break.

Ha. That Sucks.

How about focusing more?

Sweden sure rocks sometimes.

Gotta love Australia with its funding help for universities. In the end the goverment fronts the money for the course, has not interest (but there are some added on costs for administration but they are very low) and in the end they just take a cut of your pay packet (after you earn 40 plus a year). So gotta love HECS or FEE-HELP.