#college should be free

[odinsblog]

[transformedyt]

There should be a system where if people can pass the college/university exam(s) that students have to do (with it being at least affordable, though preferably free) then they can get their degree. Obviously with exceptions for like healthcare stuff and other things that could have lives on the line. But if you can self teach stuff like programming or business well enough to pass the tests that everyone else has to do, you should get your credentials. But that won’t happen because post secondary education is a massive industry and they would never let that happen because it would damage their (typically already MASSIVE) bottom lines.

[sapsolace]

obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]

[vivaldying]

Writing scholarship essays is so time consuming, and frankly boring, but I’ll be damned if I don’t write excellent essays because I refuse to go into terrible amounts of debt.

[potentiallyambitious]

inputted all of my data into a budgeting app and my net worth is hilarious

[chatitajens]

day starting off terrible i’m very close to just dropping out of school ong

[cowardlykrow]

"Hah, dude doesn't even know he's in my tamagotchi."

[wyvernity]

sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

bonus

[nando161mando]

Saying the quiet part out loud

[carsonjonesfiance]

Democracy is when Bernie wins and fake democracy is when anyone else wins, am I an expert in political sciences.

[odinsblog]

When the Biden Administration announced Wednesday that it would cancel $10,000 of federal student loans for Americans making under $125,000 per year, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients at the same income level, the backlash was predictable. Critics, often older people who had gone to college before the 1980s, called the policy a giveaway to the college educated, and unfair to those who had paid their way through school.

While I was reporting my book, The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For, I spent months researching why the student debt crisis has hit younger generations so hard— and why many older Americans don’t seem to understand the unique financial predicament of millennials and Gen Z. One key reason is that college affordability has radically transformed over the last 50 years. Many of the older conservatives who are angry at the idea that taxpayers might pay for student loan forgiveness went to school at a time when the government was heavily subsidizing higher education, and therefore tuition was far less expensive. For them, working their way through school without debt was feasible; for modern millennials and Gen Z, it’s often financially impossible.

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell called Biden’s loan forgiveness plan “student loan socialism” and said it was a “slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college.” But when McConnell graduated from the University of Louisville in 1964, annual tuition cost $330 (or roughly $2,500 when adjusted for inflation); today, it costs more than $12,000, a 380% increase. When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who called the policy a “debt transfer scam,” graduated from California State University, Bakersfield in 1989, tuition was less than $800; today, it’s more than $7,500, a 400% increase when adjusted for inflation. Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a moderate Democrat who is running for re-election this year, told Axios she disagreed with the policy because “it doesn’t address the root problems” of college affordability; when Cortez Masto graduated from the University of Nevada in 1986, tuition was a little more than $1,000— today, it’s roughly three times as expensive.

And don’t forget Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, who called the policy “UNFAIR” on Twitter. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1955, when annual tuition cost roughly $159, or between $40 and $53 per quarter. Today, it costs more than $8,300, a nearly 500% increase even when adjusted for inflation.

Younger generations might say what’s really “unfair” is that many Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation had access to highly subsidized higher education with affordable tuition, while some millennials and Gen Z get just $10,000 of student loan forgiveness. Those calling Biden’s new policy “socialism” would do well to remember this: In 1987, a student at the University of Kansas could pay her tuition with a part-time minimum wage job and still have some left over for books and food. In 2016, a student working a minimum wage job would come up $38,000 short.

👉🏿 https://time.com/6208484/biden-student-loan-critics-college/

[bloodpen-to-paper]

I'm realizing now how reasonable the economics and paywall system might seem from the Koreans' perspective in comparison to our older members. Acau and Jungryeok from what I know play a lot of vanilla, where something like the warpstone system isn't even available. The fact that it exists here is already a huge buff, so having to work for it doesn't take away from that. The members who had it for free before feel cheated, but the new members see a reasonable opportunity they haven't had before

[soulren]

I wish learning wasn’t so stigmatized. I wish there were for-fun classes you could just go attend at lecture halls and stuff. No fees, no issues, you could just sit down and learn whatever you want if someone was teaching it. Maybe homework for some courses, but more often optional work to learn more and prepare. I wish learning was seen as a fun and interesting and accessible thing and that there were people paid to give it for free without worrying about trends or clicks. In-person and accessible, too.

[agenderedmoss]

When you have a few assignments at school that want you to talk about niche topics so you end up choosing Fable SMP, End Duo, and the Prince of the Stars book Caspian wrote in season 2

[biblionerd07]

“Jesse deserved what happened with Jack’s gang and should’ve died in the end because he was a pussy bitch and a rat and snitching is NEVER forgivable.” —Some business major named Brayden who wears boat shoes and calls the cops if he sees a homeless person existing in public

[blurmarsh]

Talked with some friends about dream selves and it compelled me to draw Shinmy as a derse dreamer