• The scam behind College education.
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[QUOTE=Swilly;29833246]And you're paying about 27 thousand dollars to get to know the right people?[/QUOTE] Who the hell pays 27,000 to know somebody? All you have to do is go to the place you want to work at, get to know the guy in charge, be his best bro, and ask for a job :v: Or if you have close family, ask them to put a word in.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;29833268]Who the hell pays 27,000 to know somebody? All you have to do is go to the place you want to work at, get to know the guy in charge, be his best bro, and ask for a job :v: Or if you have close family, ask them to put a word in.[/QUOTE] Yeah well, I'm paying about 40 thousand to 50 thousand and I've made some good contacts, but I could've easily run into them on the internet.
[QUOTE=Swilly;29833276]Yeah well, I'm paying about 40 thousand to 50 thousand and I've made some good contacts, but I could've easily run into them on the internet.[/QUOTE] Uhmmm... What?
[QUOTE=Binladen34;29833296]Uhmmm... What?[/QUOTE] This is what I've been saying since the beginning of second semester. Or more "Wait wait wait, I'm getting this for this much, when citizens in other countries get this for free. Please, show me what I'm getting is better."
[QUOTE=Swilly;29833301]This is what I've been saying since the beginning of second semester. Or more "Wait wait wait, I'm getting this for this much, when citizens in other countries get this for free. Please, show me what I'm getting is better."[/QUOTE] Either it's the fact that I'm all drugged up because I had to go to the hospital today, or it's because I'm tired, or it's because you're dumb. But you don't make a fucking bit of sense.
there is a way to cheat the system. there's a kid in my highschool who works for his dad's mega company, makes enough money to buy himself a new car ever month, and will most likely take over for his dad when he retires. you just gotta be born lucky.
[QUOTE=TheMourge;29833478]you just gotta be born lucky.[/QUOTE] Lies. I just use the Intense Training perk to boost my luck from 6 to 7.
I agree with the points made about education delivery needing to get with the times. I've graduated now but the fact that I needed to spend time and money actually getting to a professors lecture instead of just listening to it or watching online is ridiculous. Being Canadian though I'm not 100% versed in American politics, education, and economics but it was still an interesting watch.
One of my real life semi-friends (not really a friend, but we talk sometimes) has parents who are both chemical engineers. His dad owns a chemical engineering company and his mom works there or whatever (I don't know the details). His dad makes 200,000 dollars per year, and his mom makes 120,000 dollars per year, and he makes 1000 dollars per month in allowance for not doing shit. Sometimes it is being born lucky. But you also have to realize that both of his parents went to college for 10+ years to become doctors, his dad learned about business and then continued on to create that business. So sometimes its not just luck, but also hard work, and good choices. And by good choices I don't mean getting a 250,000 dollar loan. Also that oral surgeon lady, I don't know what the hell she did, but the average pay for a dental surgeon in the united states is 246,000 dollars per year. My dad's wife is an oral surgeon even, and I know they're pretty well off even though I only see him every two years.
[QUOTE=Collin665;29834016] Also that oral surgeon lady, I don't know what the hell she did, but the average pay for a dental surgeon in the united states is 246,000 dollars per year. My dad's wife is an oral surgeon even, and I know they're pretty well off even though I only see him every two years.[/QUOTE] average pay ≠ her job. for example, my mother is a dental hygienist. the average dental hygienist makes 52 dollars an hour. she makes about 38.
This smells of tea-party dismantle the department of education to me
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Why do you need an hour long video to say "you need college for some things but not for others and if you are smart you will do fine with or without one"
[QUOTE=Occlusion;29863231]Why do you need an hour long video to say "you need college for some things but not for others and if you are smart you will do fine with or without one"[/QUOTE] Because college grads would ask for hours worth of facts to protect their debts.
I only watched the first 10 minutes of it so far and it seems that they haven't mentioned that when you go to college, you go to learn things that (should) interest you. It's making it seem like learning things about the world around you is too much of a hassle.
[QUOTE=Applecrap;29828904]Wow. That was kind of hilarious. Yes, colleges are expensive and the education you get isn't really worth a damn unless you can actually do something with it. But this is just blatant propaganda. For fuck sake look at the end. College is not the be all end all of learning. You should go to college if and only if you [B]want to learn[/B]. Not to get a job. Not so you can make more money. Guess what, if you really want to make money all you need to do is think of something really innovative and spend the time and money you would have put into an education into developing that. So yes, the video is right about some things, but in the end it's one big hour-long zeitgeisty commercial.[/QUOTE] If everyone could think of something really innovative then innovation would become impossible
I agree with what they were saying about high school, I can count on one hand the number of useful things I learned in four years of high school. College on the other hand is only pointless if you pursue some useless degree like golf management or underwater basket weaving.
jesus christ the sound around 35 minutes after that guy mentioned the waiter/waitress statistic scared the shit out of me.
These guys sound like glorified doomsday preachers to me.
[QUOTE=DDmaster;29828239]Sup! [img_thumb]http://www.interject.dk/assets/images/Denmark.png[/img_thumb] Denmark Free College! And we get paid for it xD[/QUOTE] High five, $1200 a month for studying. :denmark:
Wow this documentary is alittle too much :P USA is fucked up in every way and that is because capitalism
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;29835761]This smells of tea-party dismantle the department of education to me[/QUOTE] ....If the DoE was dismantled the prices would sky rocket even more. this smells of more regulation to me.
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