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Oh man. 30-100€ per semester and not literally 0€ per semester? I feel so misled and cheated by that clickbait title. Do people have no shame?
by Dewie3 11y ago
Oh man. 30-100€ per semester and not literally 0€ per semester? I feel so misled and cheated by that clickbait title. Do people have no shame?
- shkkmo 11y agoBut it includes a public transit pass as well :)
- kaybe 11y agoAnd an even better insurance against accidents for when you actually are at the university. It also covers travel to and from anything you do there. Oh, and we're funding the student council with a few euros as well.
- flippant 11y agoI pay that much for bus passes per semester.
- billforsternz 11y agoI don't think Mithaldu was simply being pedantic about the word "free".
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoIf you're a computer, then that's correct. If you're a human being and you understand that 100 euro is essentially free, especially when compared to the tuition in the US, then the conclusion is a bit different.
- billforsternz 11y agoExactly, you are agreeing with Mithaldu (and me).
- Mithaldu 11y agoThank you for being the only one to understand that the word free was not what i was complaining about. The replies to my post have been both amusing and horrifying, and you are a shining light in a sea of shortsightedness. :)
- billforsternz 11y agoYou're welcome, thanks.
- coldtea 11y agoNotice how both his, your initial and your second comment don't say anything else besides that the title is linkbait and that it says free where in fact you pay a very very small amount? You might have been complaining about something else besides free, but information about what would that be is totally absent from your comments.
- Mithaldu 11y agoFrankly, given the prevalence of clickbait on the internet in general, and the general savviness of the HM crowd, i did not even consider in the least that the nature of this clickbait could not be obvious to everyone. A bit of a mistake of mine. I've explained that nature in a comment a little further up. :)
- billforsternz 11y agoPossibly by "his" you mean me, so I perhaps owe an explanation. I thought the point Mithaldu was making was sufficiently obvious. Instead of a title signaling the contents of the article in a straightforward manner, a more sensational sounding title was chosen. A step along the path to "Click here to learn the one amazing simple free education trick expensive US universities don't want you to know about". But the responses to Mithaldu seemed to think he was quibbling about whether a trivial amount of money was the same as free or not. I didn't think he was, something he has subsequently confirmed. Hope that helps.
- Dewie3 11y ago