“Blows” $90,000 in three years?
I don’t get the headline.
It’s tough to find - or get into - a first rate college in America that charges less than $30,000 a year for tuition, room, board, books, fees, and (usually) health insurance.
So, it’s a story about a young woman who did not budget for her senior year, and, apparently knows nothing about student loans or working a summer job.
This is not exactly news in my part of the country.
In my old age I find it hard to take the idea of a "first rate" college seriously. I can think of 10-20 liberal arts colleges that would be truly worthwhile, none of them Ivy League schools.
Just about any technical school will provide a good technical education, but it won't be a well-rounded education.
My oldest is working her way through state college and commuting from home. She has her feet squarely on the ground. She is at the top of her class and will graduate with an MA in elementary ed in five years --with no debt.
Most of the kids living on campus are still in the puking-on-their-shoes stage of development.
Is it a great education? No. Is it passable? Yes. Is there a lot of PC crap? Yes. But she knows how to deal with it. And surprisingly, most of her professors have not been moonbats. She even had a Jewish professor who was disgusted with the students' ignorance of Christian history.
She's told me that for 80% of her class, religion is something that they've heard of. Fortunately she has run into several devout Catholics and Protestants who really stand out from the rest. You have to feel bad for the religiously ignorant kids who have been thrown, bound and gagged, onto the street of life.