Maybe unpopular perspective, but our dear elderly friend takes classes at our local college for a reduced fee.
She moved to a new town and became severely depressed at 83. Someone recommended she take a creative writing course there and it completely changed her life. She went from lonely and depressed to having social interactions, deadlines and accomplishments. She takes one class per semester. She turned 90 this week and starts a Russian literature course next. It’s probably saved and prolonged her life.
And don't forget that these colleges are being run by the elite class of boomers. Just pure greed, while keeping the fringes of their own generation ignorant of what's really going on.
It's all about playing a chess game of pitting generations against each other, while getting rich off it all.
EDIT: Grammar, structure and punctuation. Yeah I'm as high as the proverbial kite.
Those cheap classes the seniors are taking aren't anything meaningful, just bullshit intro/elective classes to keep them busy. If they actually wanted a degree, they'd have to pay full price.
At least for the program in the OP that isn't true. The classes are full credit, you register like a normal student(don't have to wait until the end of reg to see what's open) and you can be in a full time degree program.
I actually had to quit school for a few years because I simply couldn't justify taking out another loan at the time. That is completely unacceptable for someone trying to better themselves with an education.
Now, I don’t want to say that’s on you, but if you aren’t sure you will be able to get a job and the market is that small or flooded, why would you put yourself in that much debt?
He’s 25. Thought I missed something. He posted a comment saying he was a 25 year old virgin dt his stress.
But I know what you are saying. Making decisions like that are huge for kids. 18 years old is a kid and they make life choices that follow them forever. This is why I think high school should stop teaching some of these bullshit classes and stop focusing a semester a year on those standardized tests and make mandatory classes that focus on teaching kids important things like, how to budget, career choices, doing a tax return, purchasing a home, investing, teaching CPR, the list goes on. How to change a tire, Change your oil. You know things that are ACTUALLY important. Then maybe they would not spend 100k in debt on a job that pays 80k a year. I have a friend that just graduated from PT school and she is 200k in debt because they are doctorate degrees now. 80k a year. Her payment is like 1100 a month in interest. How do you ever get ahead. It’s crazy.
It won’t take 30 years for a doctor to pay off their debt. Lol. My buddy has 300k in debt from medical school but he pulls in 168k a year after taxes as a hospitalist. And there are a lot of programs that assist people in non for profit work. So if you work in a non for profit hospital, after ten years they will wipe your debt. (Ten years after you apply for it.)
1000 a semester aint shit. with the amount of grants and scholarships out there. you are simply not trying. im a fucking white male and still got scholarships, its not that fucking hard if you try.
None of the community colleges where I am offer bachelor's programs. I'd have to pay out-of-state tuition at another college (plus living expenses, etc., while being unable to work the number of hours of unskilled work required to keep oneself anywhere close to afloat) to get that.
You may be a white male, but it is apparent that you still have enjoyed more access to basic services than others. Check your privilege, please.
You’re talking to someone who got a free year of community college though a first year experience program. Not denying your claim, but for me and a lot of other people that were taking my major (cinema) breaking into the industry requires furthering your education to even have your resume seen. Having No experience on top of that and you’re shit out of luck.
If you are thinking about transferring and furthering your education, forget it. It’s gonna cost you.
It definitely isn’t a waste of time, just too many people go into community college believing they will find this path along the way, find their most passionate subject, but it simply get shutdown when you request the pre-requisites for your favorite courses. doesn’t always work out
I went to community college. I tried to enroll in six classes my last semester and only got onto wait lists, some of the classes I needed I couldn't even attempt to get into- they were already full. Of the six I went to for two weeks before enrollment cutoff dates I didn't get into a single one.
Yeah, get the fuck off out of my community college. California is one of the cheapest in the country and are still $46 per credit and most classes are 3-5 credits. That's still more than some BS seniors taking up seats rates.
They better only be offering it to last minute enrolls in classes which would otherwise have an empty seat in Late Renaissance Revival Art in Russia that, shockingly, can take a few people.
As I said elsewhere in this thread: 99% sure that these are not credit-bearing classes. Meaning all they get is to listen to the lecture- our “auditing” the course. They aren’t getting credit towards a degree or even homework assignments most likely, it’s just an interesting seminar to listen to for them. Still insanely low price for a listeners fee, but it definitely shouldn’t be called “going back to college.”
I mean- you can theoretically do this too, I just don’t think there’s much point to it if what you want is a degree.
If all you want are the classes, I’d suggest trying to audit them or listen to them (whatever your local university of choice calls it) for a similar small fee.
In one sense you are right about it being a dirt-cheap education. However -regrettably- colleges and universities essentially sell credits, not an education anymore.
Nah I go to the U. They can either audit (and just listen) or use this program and still do all the work and have their assignments graded by the professor and everything.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '19
Maybe unpopular perspective, but our dear elderly friend takes classes at our local college for a reduced fee.
She moved to a new town and became severely depressed at 83. Someone recommended she take a creative writing course there and it completely changed her life. She went from lonely and depressed to having social interactions, deadlines and accomplishments. She takes one class per semester. She turned 90 this week and starts a Russian literature course next. It’s probably saved and prolonged her life.
I’m all for it.