Simple question, do you donate money to your alma mater?

I haven't and don't plan on it. I don't see the point. Personally, I feel no nostalgia for college and thinking back on it I'm glad to be out of there. My biggest regret was not transferring out my freshmen year or at least changing my major. I thought that everything would get better with time... boy I was wrong.

The parties sucked since the police were very hell bent on ensuring that everyone was in bed by 10:30 and the classic football rivalry was even more lack luster. There was a "no drinking" rule and you had to get a permit to barbecue before the game. The only people who showed up were rich alumni. I had my first real tailgating experience when the game was held at the rival school. During my sophomore year they also let in a glut of kids who were dumber than their past averages to compensate for their declining admissions.

During those four years, tuition went up somewhere near 150k a year for the privilege of being in nowheresville. They also proceeded to build a massive sports complex while all of the academic buildings are too small and rotting since they were built in the 60s.

I have other organizations that I feel are more deserving of my money. The cost of my college degree hasn't matched its value.

Those who donate are usually older because they are more established. If I'm making 500k plus a year and I got my career through connections via school then I'll donate back.

College was highschool with smokes and drunk chicks. I already paid for services rendered.

Quote: (10-31-2014 11:00 AM)frenchie Wrote:  

Simple question, do you donate money to your alma mater?

I haven't and don't plan on it. I don't see the point. Personally, I feel no nostalgia for college and thinking back on it I'm glad to be out of there. My biggest regret was not transferring out my freshmen year or at least changing my major. I thought that everything would get better with time... boy I was wrong.

The parties sucked since the police were very hell bent on ensuring that everyone was in bed by 10:30 and the classic football rivalry was even more lack luster. There was a "no drinking" rule and you had to get a permit to barbecue before the game. The only people who showed up were rich alumni. I had my first real tailgating experience when the game was held at the rival school. During my sophomore year they also let in a glut of kids who were dumber than their past averages to compensate for their declining admissions.

During those four years, tuition went up somewhere near 150k a year for the privilege of being in nowheresville. They also proceeded to build a massive sports complex while all of the academic buildings are too small and rotting since they were built in the 60s.

I have other organizations that I feel are more deserving of my money. The cost of my college degree hasn't matched its value.

Seeing as how they made a ton of money off me via tuition and continue to rake in plenty of cash off new students, they'll never get another dime out of me.

There are plenty of worthy causes out there that actually need support.

Quote: (10-31-2014 11:06 AM)Mentavious Wrote:  

Those who donate are usually older because they are more established. If I'm making 500k plus a year and I got my career through connections via school then I'll donate back.

My benchmarks are the same, if I manage to get employed in the industry where my field of study focused on (entertainment) I'd be more than happy to donate. Heck even if I got my first job through school connections even more so. Unfortunately neither has been the case and those "alumni connections" were major selling points when I was originally applying.

All of my success now was through the sweet of my own brow. Writing cover letters, fluffing my resume, and spamming job applicants via Linkedin that would make most online dating guys blush.

When I reach my end goals I will give back. It will be with heavy strings attached and likley be pumped into scholarships in my program to shield my money going to queers and tranny bathrooms. Its not a culture within Canada to give back like it is in the States. My school is attempting to swoon and prop ups Alumni very aggressively to start a consistent chain of giving back going forward. If I end up getting good value out of what I am getting in school I have no issues in giving back, only with what my money is used towards.

No, though I had an awesome Dean that showed me how to deposit fundraising money as an alumni gift in my name...so yes I have donated but not with my own money. The girls they hired to work in the alumni dept were all hot chicks. It was great to get the royal treatment for a while.

Why would I? Since I graduated, my alma mater has accelerated their leftist indoctrination and continued to raise tuition.
I suggest that no one donates unless they have already fully funded their life needs with additional millions in the bank and see no other gifts to give to society. I would rather help fund organizations closer to me or had out $100 bills to those that would show true gratitude.

Going to college is like a contract. They educate you for your payments. When complete each is on their own. Does your alama mater call you with additional free classes? Probably not, so to me it is ridiculous the they call me every year to ask for donations.

If you are donating to your college, you are actively funding militant feminist policies that are ruining the lives of young men and sending them into a deep spiral of depression. Almost like funding terrorism, except more mental than physical. I'm not exaggerating much here.

Having gone through he with a false rape accusation, and seeing the kind of ship they run at my "elite" institution", they can all sod off.

Nope, never will. California education systems might be decent, but they keep fucking the students.

Also, mine was a commuter university. We didn't even have a football team, decent baseball thought.

Not much heart or soul.

Also IF I ever did, I'd donate directly to the business & economics school and/or computer science.

No. Two reasons.

1. No financial aid, grants or anything given to me.

2. They fined me for some big party I threw. I had to go in front of the student body council and they made me and my roomates pay like $100 each and after that I swore I'd never give them money.

Hah. I reluctantly make student loan payments.

No. I walked in a few years after I graduated to pick up some documents. During my absence they did a multi-million dollar renovation and raised tuition. About a week later I received a fundraising letter in the mail and in it they were proud to announce the school has an 80% employment rate 9 months after graduation. Simply pathetic.

Not only no.

But hell no.

Agree with some others -- hell no. My university is a leftist indoctrination factory with bloated social programs for every aggrieved interest group, needless construction boondoggles, and a mindless bureaucracy comprised of morons.

Yes! I went to a tech school. Engineering and sciences. No degrees in liberal arts offered. I want to see every student coming out of there do well because we all generally contribute to society unlike your typical sociology major.

Yes.

I was on the Men's Track/CC team and while it was a shoestring operation compared to the football/basketball programs there were some nice benefits, so when the university calls and asks for money I will usually donate with the caveat that it must go those programs and nothing else.

Quote: (10-31-2014 12:48 PM)kaotic Wrote:  

Nope, never will. California education systems might be decent, but they keep fucking the students.

Also, mine was a commuter university. We didn't even have a football team, decent baseball thought.

Not much heart or soul.

Also IF I ever did, I'd donate directly to the business & economics school and/or computer science.

Sounds like we're alumni of the same university. The only time they ever address me by name instead of student ID number is when they're asking for money. Fuck them.

They also contracted with Alcohol and Beverage Control while I was in school to send undercover agents into parties.

It's funny that this thread was just started now. Two nights ago, my college (undergrad) called me up looking for a handout. I told them to delete my number. I have no idea how they got my number in the first place. It was the first and only call I have ever received from them.

Quote: (10-31-2014 04:03 PM)Pacesetter20 Wrote:  

Yes.

I was on the Men's Track/CC team and while it was a shoestring operation compared to the football/basketball programs there were some nice benefits, so when the university calls and asks for money I will usually donate with the caveat that it must go those programs and nothing else.

Worked at the alumni donation center at my school for a time. Easy money and a good way to learn and practice salesmanship, game, and conversation skills.

Generally donations like this are simply subtracted from what the University's budget would otherwise have put toward any particular program. Give $100 directly to X sport/club/department? It makes no difference. Unless your donation is large enough to really influence their decisionmaking process it's just the same old shit to them.

It sounds like the budget for running is pretty low, so a donation to that could easily be larger than the school's annual budget for it. They may just roll over your donation to use in future years though.

Quote: (11-01-2014 07:41 PM)getdownonit Wrote:  

Quote: (10-31-2014 04:03 PM)Pacesetter20 Wrote:  

Yes.

I was on the Men's Track/CC team and while it was a shoestring operation compared to the football/basketball programs there were some nice benefits, so when the university calls and asks for money I will usually donate with the caveat that it must go those programs and nothing else.

Worked at the alumni donation center at my school for a time. Easy money and a good way to learn and practice salesmanship, game, and conversation skills.

Generally donations like this are simply subtracted from what the University's budget would otherwise have put toward any particular program. Give $100 directly to X sport/club/department? It makes no difference. Unless your donation is large enough to really influence their decisionmaking process it's just the same old shit to them.

It sounds like the budget for running is pretty low, so a donation to that could easily be larger than the school's annual budget for it. They may just roll over your donation to use in future years though.

That's annoying.

Another CA university grad checking in. No, I would not donate.

The UC and Cal state system has really gone down the toilet in the past 10 years or so. You might still get some value at campuses like Cal state San Luis Obispo if you focus on something like engineering. Otherwise it's all overpriced and the CA university system is infiltrated now by lots of bullshit.

I feel like I succeeded despite going to college not because of it. I started my own business and my college degree had nothing to do with it. I regret wasting time on fucking around for 4 years.

If I could do it over again I would have just saved up money for 4 years and gone traveling at 18 instead.

I go to a prestigious private university and yes, I would donate to the scholarship fund once I graduate.

Why? Because I wouldn't be able to afford my education sans the fund. I believe in giving back. My University experience has helped me grow as a man exponentially so far. Denying this would be hypocrisy of the highest order.

Yes, my money could be used better. But I am much better prepared for the world than I would have been without it. it is a great long-run investment, not least because of leadership experience which would have been very hard to gain without it and the connections I have made.

Quote: (10-31-2014 04:03 PM)Pacesetter20 Wrote:  

Yes.

I was on the Men's Track/CC team and while it was a shoestring operation compared to the football/basketball programs there were some nice benefits, so when the university calls and asks for money I will usually donate with the caveat that it must go those programs and nothing else.

I would say, hit up the coach on the team and tell them that you used to do Track when you were there. Don't let some chicken head on the phone simp you for money to fund their stupid shit.

If you do donate, make it like something that lasts forever for that team. So then your name will be remembered and all that mushy stuff.

Fuck no; I already gave them enough money for my overpriced education. Once a year they always call asking for more, and it's gotten to the point where when I see the university's number on my caller ID, I answer the phone and before they get a word in tell them to fuck off.