The School/Uni Thread

[Death Aflame]

Originally Posted by The Ozzman

8,500 is nothing.

A semester for me when I was in college was around 15,000 dollars.

Tuition alone? Cause if so that is ridiculous. I got a bursary this term and only had to pay around $1000 compared to $2500 that I usually pay per semester.

[Zephyrus]

Originally Posted by Ben_t

Oh yeah there's a lot. I was there some time last year for work. They have some really good asian restaurants though.

I had dim sum there a couple years ago. It was nothing like the Americanized stuff you get in Chinese restaurants in the US.



I just got back from my first college class, Intro to Ocean Science. It looks like a lecture course on subjects I've covered in earth science years before. Should be a breeze...

[The Ozzman]

Originally Posted by Death Aflame

Tuition alone? Cause if so that is ridiculous. I got a bursary this term and only had to pay around $1000 compared to $2500 that I usually pay per semester.

Tuition was about 12,500 and then some other shit was thrown in for administrative fees and what not.

I went to a damn good school though. I got about a third of that in scholarships and the rest in loans though.

I am looking at post graduate education and that is up to twice the amount I paid a year in undergrad.

[Dodens Grav]

A friend of mine is going to Furman University in South (?) Carolina. He pays upwards of $40,000 a semester and they raise it substantially every year. Needless to say he's getting royally fucked over.

I'm sitting on my ass in the library at the moment, I have a half hour before my Politics And Culture course. Socrates And Plato should be an interesting course to expand upon what I've already learned but in greater detail. I hate when professors use up the entire class period for introductory classes though...it's just annoying.

[Έρεβος]

Currently debating finishing high school. I'm extremely skeptical that university will ever be able to teach me more about literature, art, and music than my own studies. Or if I want to learn about what they pass off as "literature" in modern academia.

[ThisIsACoolName]

Got to love high school kids who think they know it all.

[Έρεβος]

Originally Posted by ThisIsACoolName

Got to love high school kids who think they know it all.

Gotta love college students who think they know it all.

Like reading books without biased inserts from tried-to-do-what-they-teach-about-and-failed professors teaches *so* much less.

[ThisIsACoolName]

Originally Posted by Έρεβος

Gotta love college students who think they know it all.

I'm not the one doubting that college could teach me things.

[Έρεβος]

Originally Posted by ThisIsACoolName

I'm not the one doubting that college could teach me things.

I've been to college. I kept myself busy correcting the professors' obvious and plainly idiotic mistakes and laughing at the twice-my-age students failing pathetically at what I'd perfected in elementary school. I dropped the courses (philosophy and writing) half way through with near perfect scores on all completed work.

[ThisIsACoolName]

Well then you should probably just drop out of school.