This is an rsmithnumbers thread, but don't get excited when you read the OP and see that it sounds intelligent. DUmmy rsmithnumbers did not suddenly grow a brain - he's as stupid as ever. The OP is a kpete-ish copy-and-paste job, disguising DUmmy rsmithnumbers's illiteracy:
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:41 PM
rsmith6621 (6,680 posts)
A Must Read... Yes, summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html
People tell me you used to be able to work one job, the entire summer, and cover your entire education. I’m not sure how long ago that was — I have a hard time believing it. — Stephan Yhann, 21, current UW student
Put down your smartphones, kids, and gather around Uncle Danny. I’m here to tell you a little something about these yarns from the days of yore, these tales so tall and preposterous.
What’s most amazing about them is: They’re true! You really could work a summer job and pay for your education.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023078279rsmithnumbers hasn't come back to his thread to describe what he's paying for his four-year truck driving school diploma.
Ugly DUmmy Warpy, who wasted her nursing education by getting caught stealing drugs from the hospital:
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:44 PM
Warpy (69,762 posts)
1. Guys could often find part time jobs to pay their living expenses.
Women students had to work full time to pay theirs.
This was in the 60s.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:44 PM
BeyondGeography (21,563 posts)
2. We made consumer non-essentials cheaper while life essentials
(housing, health care and education) have gone through the roof. It's a bad deal.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:46 PM
MgtPA (705 posts)
3. It is true. My brother graduated from college in 1981.
He mowed lawns all summer (some residential, some commercial) and paid his whole tuition.
In the mid-1970's, Temple University's tuition was $40.00 per credit hour...
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:54 PM
1-Old-Man (1,685 posts)
6. When I first went to school tuition ran a max of $100 per semister.
Then when I went back, seven years later, it had crept up to $600 per semister.
DUmmy number-Old-Man did not major in spelling.
Response to 1-Old-Man (Reply #6)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:57 PM
Liberal Veteran (20,507 posts)
It seems that higher education has become a giant siphon to get as much money as possible from students.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 09:21 PM
tabbycat31 (5,148 posts)
9. I think everyone over 40 needs to read this
I got into it with my mom a few weeks ago about something similar. She does not get it.
Well I'll be damned! Someone get nadin! Here's another DUmmy who doesn't get it.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 09:28 PM
alcibiades_mystery (28,634 posts)
12. I worked my way through school in the 1990's
Waiting tables during the year, mostly supermarket work during the summer. Graduated with no debt from a state university - and did the dorms and off campus apartment all four years. Got a little help from the folks, but not much. This was possible 20 years ago. You want to stump me, I don't understand how people pay for these smartphone data plans. They seem exorbitantly expensive.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 11:11 PM
mountain grammy (1,839 posts)
16. Yes, a must read. It was completely possible in the sixties.
I know because I did it. The minimum wage is so ridiculously low now and college expenses are unbelievable.
Well of course the reason for the explosion in the cost of higher education is that the federal government opened the floodgates on a virtually unlimited amount of money available to students to borrow, with almost no questions asked.
University administrators are running huge businesses, always have. When their customers became willing and able to pay any amount, you can hardly expect them to hold down their prices.
It had nothing to do with how much taxpayer money is allocated directly to the university by the state.
It's just like how healthcare prices exploded when health insurance became nearly universal, and the federal government made an unlimited amount of money available to Medicare.
