A good part of the blame belongs to people who demand that you have to go to college to become something.
It simply isn’t true. College isn’t for everyone, smart or not.
Many of these persons will flock to other countries to doge the repayment of student loans
Had to read pretty far down to get to this nugget:
“She recently received a raise and now makes $22 an hour working for a photographer. It’s the highest salary she’s earned since graduating with an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women’s studies.”
Probably out on a limb for some useless liberal arts degree. Would you like fries with that?
>>Ms. Munna does not want to walk away from her loans in the same way many mortgage holders are.<<
She can’t. They will hound her for the rest of her days. Hey, Ms. Munna — PAY IT BACK LIKE YOU AGREED!
And I had a hefty student loan debt when I left college and started working. I paid it back over 10 years as I agreed to do.
I have no sympathy for someone who borrows money then cries because he/she has to pay it back.
These people have no one but themselves to blame for their situations.
More proof that some people are too stupid to benefit from attending college.
Lemme get this straight...
Religion: politically incorrect in business
Women’s studies: Has this womyn no common sense? Why would you want an employee with a cr@ppy attitude?
and the degree is interdisciplinary! Wowzers!!!!
If someone wants to go to college to study religion and women’s studies, that’s fine by me. But if you have to go into hock for $100,000 to get a college degree, you better make sure that you get a degree that you can earn enough money with to pay back the loan.
I keep seeing teachers complain about what they get paid, basing their objection on the fact that since they are so highly educated they should get paid commensurately. They don’t seem to understand that the monetary worth of your education is a function of what someone else wants to pay you to use the information and expertise you gained by attaining the degree, not what you paid for it. A degree in religion and women’s studies pretty much qualifies you to write about them - if you can find someone who wants to pay you for that - or to become a female cleric. Neither of which is going to pay a whole lot.
Mom Stole My Beer - Send the Police!
32-year-old Fla. son calls 911, demands mom's arrest after she takes booze
It's hard to be 32 years old and still live with mom, but when she takes your beer away, sometimes you have to take it like a man.
Charles Lee Dennison, over in New Port Richey, learned that the hard way this past weekend when he was arrested for calling 911 to complain his mother had poached his pilsener.
Dennison was "very intoxicated" and demanded that the police arrest dear old mom when officers responded to his initial 911 call Friday night, according to tampabay.com. The sloshed son told cops that if mom wasn't arrested and charged, he'd keep calling the emergency number.
County Sheriff's deputies instead charged him with making false 911 calls. Dennison was still in jail as of Tuesday morning, being held on $150 bail.
Hopefully mom's kicking back with a cold one while junior sits in jail.
I can’t help but wonder just WHO did she think was looking to hire people with a degree in “religious and woman’s studies” and WHY she thought there would be some kind of demand for such a thing?
Where do people come up with these hair brained ideas?
And why am I supposed to feel sorry for them?
The stupidity of people will never cease to amaze me.
With the Feds now taking over student loans, their probably is a "bridge" for her, i.e. she works for uncle sugar in a new green jobs capacity and her debt will be expunged!
And we will help pay for it! ( Sarc/ off)............
Let’s get this straight.
Girlie takes out a loan with no guarantee of career that would provide means for repayment.
Girlie can’t afford the payments.
And it’s someone’s fault who’s not Girlie?
For the love of God, someone, be a grown-up, please. STAND UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. No one held a gun to her head and forced her to take out the loans.
The financial situation that colleges put student in these days is a ****en racket ! I went to a private college and the tuition was high but yet, the college paid for the less advantaged kids out of their pocket. Basically the college had an artificially high price so those of us who can afford to pay will pay dearly and help subsidize those who cannot afford the school. What they should have is a “real price” where there are less loans for students but then again, the administrators probably get some money from the banking institutions to set this complex system up.
One thing I remembered is those who were on aid from the school had better keep their mouth shut when criticizing administrative decisions. I known some students who protested some administrative decision and through bureaucratic “screw-ups”, their aid suddenly disappeared the next school year, therefore had to drop out.
Great Zeus! What kind of nitwit goes $97,000 in debt for that kind of degree?
If she had a degree in mining or business or ANYTHING practical and high paying I might be to see it. I would still think she was an idiot to be taking on that kind of load but "an interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies."
It’s way past time for some enterprising lawyers to craft a class action suit claiming fraud in inducement of students to take out these loans. The colleges have access to information about the earning potential of graduates with various types of degrees and grades, and yet still actively encourage students to use loans to fund essentially worthless educations, and to continue through a 4 year program even while earning below average grades in a major which doesn’t even provide decent earning potential for graduates with 4.0 GPAs.
In many cases, one could argue that the students should know better, or that their parents should know better. But for students whose parents never attended any sort of college, that’s unrealistic. And students whose parents are deemed incapable of providing significant financial support towards college costs, are simply cut out of the process — the students don’t need their parents agreement to take out $100,000+ in loans and use it to major in something totally worthless at a third rate college.
College...another dying 20th century institution ..on life support...
It’s government giving money to government with students exploited as the medium. College can be a lot cheaper - offer fewer more employable degrees, don’t admit idiots, and make a degree actually signify substantial academic achievement.
Right now, higher ed is just a money mill with the end result being a piece of paper almost as worthless as one of Obama’s greenbacks.