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Crake
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Crake
14y ago
Here I feel that it's a lot more common to pay $20,000+ a year to have a professor read off a slide. Most professors I've had can't steer for shit. (Although I've had 2 philosophy professors who were very good at it! They are in the minorit
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Crake
14y ago
>It's not fun to be in a situation where you have to lower yourself in your own eyes to raise yourself in the eyes of your peers. That's exactly how I feel all of the time. If I am who I am around normal people, they get all insecure ab
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Crake
14y ago
A lot of people have looked down on me for it. Especially arts/liberal arts majors who have graduated and now make like...8-12K/year with their degree. They like to imply that they're the better person because they went to college for ~know
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Crake
14y ago
In my state it's about $80,000 for all four years. (including tuition & room and board--but not including where you live during the summer)
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Crake
14y ago
Yeah, I tried to warn my friends, but they all looked down on the idea. Now that they're out of college, most of them are working retail. They have no idea how much they owe or when it might be paid off--math is scary, so they just defer an
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Crake
14y ago
Well, I guess you could take a humanities class...or, you could, you know, get a library card. Believe it or not, there are actually sources of information outside of wikipedia and $1000000000/credit college courses. Amazing, right?
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14y ago
Probably because many colleges cost like 200K nowadays. Fun's justifiable maybe when you're graduating with, I don't know, 0-10K in debt, but at 200K you've really gotta question whether or not it's worth it. A lot of people have their four
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Crake
14y ago
Yeah, I agree with this. My English skills have always been top of the line (99% on standardized tests, 5s on APs, etc), and I fully accredit this to the fact that I have been reading CONSTANTLY since I was little. You have to develop an ab