Kolek planning to go pro
Anyone who has to take out $200k in loans to attend Marquette should probably not be attending Marquette.
I love how anecdotal 'documentaries' cite statistics.
This video should be mandatory viewing for every parent and high school senior before signing on the dotted line. The college experience is amazing and fun and most of us view it as the best four years of our life. However just don't oversell it's value and by all means stop overcharging for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpwAOHJsxg
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
With all due respect rocket you seem to be focusing on a very specific range here. Why didn't you post anything when people talk about taking basketball studies? Heck my dad who is an accountant and lawyer took PE and Golf courses at northern Illinois. Those had nothing to do with his career and weren't going to help in the real world. This is nothing new only the titles are getting crazier because the professors want to sell students on taking the course
Of course those are all ridiculous Rocket. Two things: 1) My kids had skin in the game so they would understand how much this costs and to take it seriously. 2) I had skin in the game and knew exactly what they were studying and what their grades were. Problem solved.
being a "helicopter parent" ain't all that bad after all. problem partially solved. not all kids parents know how to fly, eyn'a?
fair enough eagle, but without knowing when and where your dad went to school, the tuition costs per credit may not be as relative, but i stand corrected. i took what's his name's opera course for an elective and a little respite from the biochems and organic bios of my world. easy "A" if ya wrote a paper, "B" if ya showed up. one could also argue that opera. but majors in "fill in the blanks" studies are only in demand by those who try to create the demand. tough to pay the bills with one of those in comparison to accountants, lawyers and ahemmm, dentists
i took what's his name's opera course for an elective and a little respite from the biochems and organic bios of my world. easy "A" if ya wrote a paper, "B" if ya showed up. one could also argue that opera.
While I agree 200k for a undergrad degree is ridiculous, this really reeks of elitism. The op has some really good points buried in his manifesto. I loved my time at MU, but to think that *general* experience can't be replicated somewhere else is simply ignorant. My loans were a total pita, but I could manage. Imagine a dentist with undergrad and dental school loans looking at a 55-60k/yr starting salary. The math just stops working at some point. You don't care about this, I guess, because they can go somewhere else. Problem is that they will, and so will many others. Pretty soon the number that can or will spend what MU requires are gone, because the value just isn't there for the shrinking pool of applicants.
I mean is college worth it at all?? I never went to college and I do just fine. I'm not wealthy by any stretch, but I didn't need a college degree to get to where i am. Hard work, dependability and experience can go a long ways.If I'm an HR manager and I have two applicants for a position and one is a 35 year old with 10+ years in the same field and has proven to be super dependable in his career, and the other is fresh out of college with a shiny new degree in the same field..I'm taking the experience and dependability every single time.
Many will look at duane's post and discredit it and that's on you. There is a lot of truth in that post if you want to drop your guard and admit it. 50K tuition per year? 200K for a 4 year degree? Insane. If you don't believe the insurance part of duane's post, I lived that in the 90's.That said, I am glad Marcus is back, but I am hoping for a stronger team concept at the end of games or when closing out games. I am hoping the guys don't transfer and I am hoping that Wojo didn't just look good in what turned out to be a bad Big East this year.With the way this team is constructed today, who is coming back, who is done playing, who we have coming in, and provided there are no defections or major injuries, the minimum expectation should be S16. They should also win their conference and win at least 2 games in the BET as well. They meet expectations if they lose in the S16, the season is a success if they get beyond that.
Guess you don't know too many lawyers.
Horton Roe. Brother Horton Roe.
Those aren't the people interviewing for that job. It's a 22 year old with a related degree vs an 18 year old with no experience or a 22 year old with three years as a McDonald's employee and 1 year as a McDonald's manager.
In that scenario, I'm not hiring any of them...I can't trust a 22 year old to show up for work every day, and I sure as hell can't trust an 18 year old to either. And you don't know that. Maybe this is a good paying job(which is what I was referring too), and the 35 yr old has a chance to make more money than he is now. I'm not hiring a 22 year old fresh out of college for a high paying job, that I need dependability from that person. I'm just not.I will 100% guarantee you that 35 year old with 10+ years of experience in that field and no degree, will do a MUCH better job than a 22 year old fresh out of college with his shiny piece of paper. Experience to me, matters a lot, and it should to every employer.