If he can afford to stay in school then why not...he isn't hurting anyone is he?
Only the taxpayers who subsidize the UW system.
He's taking class seats that could be given to deserving and motivated students that want to contribute to society rather than leach off it!
I agree. Hats off to the guy. He's happy and he's not shooting anybody, which are about all I demand of folks.
My thoughts exactly. As long as he is shelling out his own money let him stay in as long as he wants. He'll have to start paying back his $30K student loan as soon as he stops being a student.
I envy him a bit. College was a blast! The best seven and a half years of my life!
Well, you can certainly make the argument that he's only hurting himself, but I guess that's his right; let's just say that in a competitive job market with a bunch of hungry go-getters, he's doomed. But if he stays in academia, of course, he doesn't have to deal with the competitive job market. At least not now. Later maybe.
At this point in his life, he's pretty much limited to the kind of jobs that college kids have. Part time jobs. Crap jobs. Jobs that will NEVER EVER pay him enough to pay off that $30,000 loan. At the rate he's going, he'll be in his 30's before he qualifies for his first entry-level position.
His only hope is to graduate and apply for grad school. That'll keep him off the street until his college fees go up so much that he won't be able to afford them waiting tables.
He might even wrangle a part-time gig as a teaching assistant. But one of these days soon, he's going to wake up and realize that everybody else; employers, banks, peers of his own age group, even the younger kids who started after him and will graduate before him - see him as an irredeemable loser.
The problem here is that you get older as the years pass even if you don't grow up. He better enjoy the company of those loopy little 18-year old college chicks while he can, because no self-respecting grown-up women is gonna want to get anywhere near him.
Depends on school policy.
When I was fighting my classes, the closer to graduation one was, the higher their registration priority. It meant that those lower on the totem pole got the their pick of the left over classes, times, and profs. Made it impossible to get a decent class schedule that allowed for maintaining a consistent work schedule; and it also meant being stuck with the whack-job profs.
If nothing else, he is warming a chair someone with serious intent could have had.
Another consideration is just how good any of his courses are for graduation, grad school, or even upper division classes.
We had to have completed prerequisites within a time frame based on 'normal matriculation' which meant introductory or Lower Division classes more than 3 or 4 years prior were considered 'stale'. They had to be repeated before being allowed to register in follow up courses.
I realize a lot has changed in 40 years, but it looks like some things never do; we had professional students, too.