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By AnonymousApology - 18/10/2016 07:06 - United States - Los Angeles

Today, I went to a grad school fair. Tuition costs more than I make in a year. I'm thirty. I think we are all fucked at this point. FML
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Our higher education system is truly in a sad state of affairs when a convict prison can get free college but legal, law abiding, tax paying citizens must pay through the nose.

That may have been possible awhile ago but with the rising cost of tution not matching the rising starting salaries of many entry level postions, you leave students with no choice but to take out massive amounts of loans with very high interest rates that even if they put almost all of their future paychecks toward won't make a dent in their loans.

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Our higher education system is truly in a sad state of affairs when a convict prison can get free college but legal, law abiding, tax paying citizens must pay through the nose.

No disrespect is intended but I greatly fear you are being whiny. My graduate education was extremely expensive, undeniably frightening. It took me over 14 years to pay off my student loans, large payments every month. No big vacations, no house or new car until I'd made over 10 years of payments. Was it worth it? Yes. If the price-tag is killing your ambition, you don't want it bad enough, and that's okay. Some of us will pay the price and reap the rewards.

I don't understand the thumbs down. This reply is perfect.

That may have been possible awhile ago but with the rising cost of tution not matching the rising starting salaries of many entry level postions, you leave students with no choice but to take out massive amounts of loans with very high interest rates that even if they put almost all of their future paychecks toward won't make a dent in their loans.

Funny thing, everytime someone tried to preface a comment with "No X intended, but" they're either too stupid to realize that the 'but' means that "X" is in the coming sentence, or banking on the listeners not realizing that the 'but' means that X is in the coming sentence. So, which are you, #2?

Also, being more blunt- Keep riding that high horse of arrogance and ignorance down the black highway.

Hey OP, if you just buckle down and work hard, you can have your student loans paid off and start making some decent money by the time you turn 70.

I know this will be voted down, but take a moment to Google the costs of graduate education over the last 50 years and compare them to the costs of single-family homes for the same period. You will find that graduate education has always cost as much as a moderate single-family home. Are home prices too high? Yes, they are, and so are graduate education prices BUT this is not a new issue. The only advantage today is that the loans are much cheaper at three to five percent, as opposed to twelve to fourteen percent twenty years ago.

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back then college also wasn't basically a requirement. You could get by decently with a high school diploma. Now if u just have a high school diploma you're basically ******.

I did some math related to education costs a while back, and found some interesting results (I chose Yale as an example). In 1976, if you worked about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, you could pay off the entirety of your college tuition at Minimum Wage for Yale. However, as of last year at minimum wage, you'd have to work a MINIMUM of 25 hours a day 5 days a week to pay off tuition... yeah, that's sort of a problem, considering that there's only about 24 hours in a day... I can show my work if really needed.

Which is completely irrelevant until you place it in the context of inflation. Both houses AND education are less affordable than they were decades ago.

I'm pretty sure your ability to not afford college affects me in no way.that being said its only you ******

It's ****** for those who want/need to go to college. Always glad to find people that only care about themselves, such as yourself. I hope you don't have kids or are super rich because at this rate, college will only be for the extremely rich. Which, by the way, I realize is the idea.

you ever heard the expression nothing in life is free well it's not nor should it be anything in life worth having takes work but sadly most of your generation doesn't understand that

I think you're missing the point of that expression. Some things are in fact "free," but someone somewhere is paying for those "free" things. As it applies to higher education, people are aware that there is a cost to making college more affordable (like free community college, lower manageable tuition that doesn't lead to decades of debt, etc.). That cost of course would come in the form of more taxes, or rearranging our current government funding or both. So the question isn't really should college be free, it's more like is more affordable education worth paying more taxes for? And the answer to that is of course subjective, but I'm of the belief that the more educated people in this world the better, so I'm willing to help pay for that.

i do have kids and not super rich but have worked hard and buckled down i didn't do college until my 30s and managed just fine anyone can do it by just needs to work hard and not whine

Californian here. I understand what you mean. :(

As an idiot who has two post grad degrees, I feel your pain. My advice would be to go for a trade school, like an electrician or a plumber or a mechanic.. Those jobs pay a lot more than you'd think plus you have a healthy work life balance.

No, not all of us. Certainly not the top 1%