It's good. This is the real cause of female underrepresentation in STEM fields: they just prefer squishy fields.
http://alphagameplan.blogspot.co.uk/2013...n.html?m=1
http://alphagameplan.blogspot.co.uk/2013...n.html?m=1
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When I reaffirmed that I would only help finance a STEM field about a month ago, she sort of lost her shit and she's dithering and is considering the local branch of UW a few blocks from our house to get the first 2 years in cheap. Except even then, instead of driving less than a mile from home, she wants to live in the dorms they may be building and blow any grants or scholarships on that crap.
Quote: (10-02-2013 07:38 PM)scorpion Wrote:
This is what happens when you water down college by extending loans to millions of students who academically don't belong there. We no longer have institutions of higher learning, they're more like institutions for learning to get high.
Quote: (10-02-2013 07:38 PM)scorpion Wrote:
This girl knows the score. She understands what college has become in our culture. College is not about education anymore. It's a goddamned vacation; a four-year party and fuckfest. Most girls (and guys to a lesser extent) aren't going to college because they're interested in learning at all. They are simply there for a piece of paper that they believe will entitle them to higher earnings in the future, and to enjoy themselves as much as possible while they jump through the hoops necessary to acquire it.
This is why the girl has no interest in living at home even though she would only be a mile from campus and would save thousands of dollars per year. Living at home would ruin her entire "dream experience" of college life, which includes a lot of sexual and substance experimentation outside of her mother's watchful eye. That's literally the extent of her thought process. There is no consideration of what is prudent or what will set her up best long-term in the future. It's simply a question of: what sort of college arrangement will allow me the most freedom from my parents and the easiest course load to give me more time for fun?
This is what happens when you water down college by extending loans to millions of students who academically don't belong there. We no longer have institutions of higher learning, they're more like institutions for learning to get high.
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Quote: (10-02-2013 08:58 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:
People might as well take a four year vacation and learn what interests them. Save a ton of money.
Wald
No bank is going to give an 18 year old 200k to piss off, unless the Federal government is going to back it.
WIA
Quote: (10-02-2013 11:15 PM)Walderschmidt Wrote:
I never said a teenager had to take such money to not go to college. I was saying that instead of paying for college, the parents might as well give the money to their children to pursue what they want outside of college.
Wald
Quote: (10-03-2013 06:00 PM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:
If you've got parents that have 200k lying around, college and getting a good paying job are the least of your worries.
In America, the vast majority of high schoolers that go on to college are paying for it via loans, grants, and student work.
The degrees are worth less because of the # of people with them
And the actual educations are watered down.
The whole thing is a mess from top to bottom, stem to stern.
WIA