Student loans

Lost User

Borrow money from parents/other relatives. It's the only realistic way to not be permanently screwed.

AspDotNetDev

mindserve wrote:

A decade is a long time

Also, keep in mind that I'm not paying off just student loans. I'm also paying off a car and debt from when I had some health issues (e.g., $3K for a broken tooth). I'd say 1/3 of my debt is from student loans, so split 10 years into 3.

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realJSOP

Yeah - instead, everyone you borrowed money from is permenantly screwed. :)

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Lost User

Exactly.

Single Step Debugger

:laugh: five all the way up

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Kyudos

I was lucky enough to be educated in the UK before tuition fees, when students got GIVEN money to go to university, and have reliable vacation work at my dad's company. So I escaped with minimal debt. My wife, on the other hand, has a reasonably large student loan debt, which we left in the UK when we emigrated (in the UK you only have to pay back your loan if you live and work in the UK and earn more than (I think) 15000GBP pa).

gstolarov

My co-worker send his kid to the state college. Tuition+Room > $30,000/yr - so much for reasonably priced public school.

Albert Holguin

Well, doctors also get a lot of benefits that people don't know about. For example, I live in a nice place where there's a lot of doctors in my building (there's a hospital near by)... the hospital actually gives them a "housing allowance"! ...and it's pretty high...

Albert Holguin

Not all are that high though (will vary A LOT!)... plus if you can get grants and scholarships, it cuts back on the out-of-pocket costs.

Albert Holguin

I went to a state college too, tuition was pretty affordable (relatively)... and now I make a very good living... so it certainly didn't lead me to earn any less than someone at MIT (for example).

S Houghtelin

Reasonable is a relative term, compared to an ivy league school it seems more reasonable. No it’s not inexpensive to be sure. I never got to go through a four year program, rather it’s been little by little when I could afford it or when my job helped with the tuition. Each time I went back, I ended up with a promotion or a better position. Slow yes, do I have any regrets, absolutely not! The fact is, it is a neccesary evil, try getting anywhere without any education.

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gstolarov

It is regular UC college (university of CA). And there is very little financial assistance for "middle class", BTW...

DaveAuld

mindserve wrote:

For those of you NOT in the USA, how do you pay for higher education.

My work provides educational sponsorship providing it is relevant to your job/career path. I pay for the module upfront, and submit an expense claim once I get the module pass exam letter.

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mindserve

Less help coming in the future too.

mindserve

Right, might end up in the USA that way too.

Single Step Debugger

I started the university in Bulgaria in the middle 90s. At this time there was no way to pay for your education (excepts you are a foreign student). All high education were fully funded from the state and the only way to get there was to beat the other candidates on the entrance examination and to have a really high score in your high school grades. My chosen specialty “computer science and basic economy” was very popular so to have any chance I had to have the maximum from the high school score plus almost the maximum score in the entrance math test. There were about 200 candidates for every position and the math test was so difficult that most of the high school math teachers wouldn’t be able to solve all the problems in the test. I tried after the high school and I failed miserably. Then I was listed in the army for a year and a half, and after I retired from the army I learned math six months for the test and scored eight from all candidates with almost perfect result on the exam.

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Albert Holguin

gstolarov wrote:

university of CA

Well there's the problem...

Albert Holguin

S Houghtelin wrote:

Reasonable is a relative term, compared to an ivy league school it seems more reasonable.

That's true... MIT charges about $21K per semester...

S Houghtelin

We have a couple of MIT grads where I work, they also get paid a great deal more than I, they can afford to repay their loans. :laugh:

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