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attempting to transfer to carleton.

My company has a boat load of web sites that help students find online universities (not just programs offered by for profit schools, but also traditional universities such as Georgetown, UMass, Boston University, etc.)

Helping people get pieces of paper that mean employers have to pay them more is somewhat productive!

I've doubled my income by quitting a job working for morons and falling into IT. Now I add tubes to the interwebs for great victory.

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Jubber

AKA "The Gun"
AKA "ROFeraL"

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you mean the internet isn't a big truck

Too bad for-profit universities are literally scams. I'm pretty sure the government shut a bunch of them down a while back (or they're being investigated, idk).

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None of that is true.

The government didn't shut any for profit universities down. What they did do was introduce legislation that would limit or cut off federal funding for schools that don't meet standards for gainful employment for their graduates. There is also legislation floating around that will target student loan default rates and graduation rates, cutting funding for schools that don't meet certain benchmarks.

I'll agree that many for-profit universities have deceptive and often overly-aggresive recruiting practices (telling students that they'll make X amount if they get a certain degree...often the salary numbers they quote are completely wrong). I am all for government regulation as it relates to gainful employment etc. Kaplan and University of Phoenix have been hit by regulations and are now changing many of their not-so-good practices. This is a great thing.

Personally, I only consider universities that are not accredited (AKA Diploma Mills) to fit the literal definition of "scam".

For-profit education is a scam. Then again, considering how student loans work, higher education in general is a scam.

A scam you have to get on board with if you want a job.

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Pretty much this.

Look at how much tuition costs have risen in the last 30 or so years (yes, even in the not-for-profit space) and you can't tell me that all of higher education isn't pretty much a scam.

Case and point...my ex girlfriend attended Kenyon College.

Good school? Sure. You know how much it costs a year? $42,630 as of 2011/2012

What degrees do they offer?



I'm sorry but I don't see how paying $170,520 or more for a degree in Gender Studies, or Film Studies, or Art History, or Philosophy, or Religious Studies, or Classics, or American Studies, etc. can be seen as anything but a giant rip off.

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I am the goggles. I do nothing.

I'll try get a job in payroll or some other accounting related garbage in the new year.

I'm not sure why, but I get a raging boner every time I see you post. You should post more often.

basically kill myself by not sleeping and consuming unhealthy amounts of caffeine to get shit did. also wondering why the hell i didn't just go to med school.

s^ | Kay

I'm facing a really shitty dilemma myself regarding caffeine usage.

Work overnights, caffeine carries me to glorious victory. Watch kids at 2 pm every day, caffeine fucks me when I get home and can't fall asleep immediately. GG 5 hrs of sleep every day M-F for the past 2.5 yrs.

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

it's getting to the point where my heart rate is in the vicinity of >120 at rest fairly often. caffeine + no sleep + immense stress = i seriously feel like i'm going to dieee. also, i swear i feel an arrhythmia sometimes, though that may be a product of paranoia.

:[

s^ | Kay