Guys wife gets email for student loan repayment during graduation (x-post from r funny)
Posted May 7, 2017, 11:33 AM UTC
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And now my adventure indenture begins.
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To think some people in my country want to privatize universities. We'd have this bullcrap in every graduation, instead of the cheerful ritual of getting stuff thrown at you (and sometimes a costume and parade with friends and family).
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You had better fight that with every ounce of energy you have got.
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Indeed. Thankfully, those who want to keep universities public are a majority.
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The state school that I graduated from in 1991 cost me $4000 a year, room and board. Now that same state school costs $30,000 a year, an increase of almost 800%. At that rate, by the time my daughter, born this February, is ready to go to school, it will cost about $200,000 a year. I don't see anything on our Trumpian horizon that will slow that rate down, but probably accelerate that inflation. Plus, in our state, Illinois, our public university system is slowly being dismantled, starting with the universities that serve the least financially advantaged.
My wife and I sat down and did some simple math. We figured it will be phenomenally cheaper to send her to a school in Europe, Australia or Canada. Even factoring in room and board, out of country tuition fees, flying back and forth for summer and holidays, etc -- phenomenally cheaper. There is no way anyone should have to start out their life with a debt equivalent to a hefty mortgage.
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Thanks for the ideas for those other countries guys. We only looked at Canada and France so far. I suppose we have 17 more years to plan. Cheers.
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You could send her to a Scandinavian country where it's free and only deal with the accommodation and basic costs which she child even cover with a part time job herself.
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Yeah dont think you just go to Sweden and get the same benefits other swedish people get...
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Nor should they, but the point is that it's much cheaper. Even Croatia gives free education for all and is a popular option for Americans studying abroad
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the problem with going to europe for a degree is that a lot of the time US employers don't understand the degree equivalencies.
My buddy has a german machine design degree from a trade school, and had a hell of a time finding work in the US because the employers didn't understand that it was a specialty degree focused towards the type of work he was going to be doing for them.
they literally just asked him, "What kind of 4 year degree do you have?" when there isn't exactly an equivalent.
It's more of a problem with the cookie cutter "you have to have ths 4 year degree to do this job, regardless of how good you actually will be for the position" mentality.
Basically turning away qualified people because they didn't spend enough money on schooling, and the corporate system is too rigid for common sense.
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Unfortunately, non-EU citizens have to pay tuition in Sweden now. It's still not big compared to tuition at many US universities, but it's still going to be a up to few thousand dollars per year, depending on the degree you're pursuing (Masters in Engineering costs more than a Bachelor in History, for example). Tuition is a hotly debated topic at the university I teach at, some advocate tuition also for Swedish students because "it would make them more motivated". Bullcrap. Most of the bad students I have are people with parents well off enough that they'd be here anyway, because for them it's unthinkable not to get some kind of degree while most of my students from less priviliged backgrounds do better. Completely anecdotal, and probably coloured a bit by my own prejudice, of course...
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Please fight and encourage others to fight for the rights you have already, coz getting them back after you lose them is always going to be much harder. And paying for education is bullshit and only works towards inequality and segregation of the classes and would add extra stress for low income families making their lives even harder.
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Or Germany.
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I did this in the UK (which is still fairly expensive), and I'm currently getting things together for a Masters degree elsewhere in Europe. I also studied in Japan for a year without taking any loans. I have some tips:
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There are English-taught degrees in almost every country. Don't be afraid to encourage her to look at countries like Spain, Italy, or Germany.
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She will still probably have to take out some US education loans, so be sure to know the conditions. I was denied student aid in my final year of college because I'd taken a year of study abroad, which meant I was stuck taking privatized US loans to graduate. That got expensive.
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Think about getting her into the IB program in high school. Pretty obvious, but converting grades between countries can be difficult, and some universities might ask for her grades to be officially converted at a consulate.
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International universities could not care less about which clubs or sports she does, unless they're academically relevant to the degree she's applying for. I was told by the intake department at Oxford, "You could play football for England, and we honestly wouldn't give a damn."
Hope that helps!
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I will finish master arts in 2018. By then, I will have paid an equivalent of around $100 for it. This includes two entry fees and costs of publishing both bachelor thesis and master one.
I can't imagine living in US. 30 years ago, people in my country were dreaming about moving there, now they only dream about visiting California or eating BBQ in the south. Fuck, it's sad, cause until 1980s you had had so much potential to be on your way to become something truly remarkable not only in the aspects of geopolitics and culture, but also when it comes to quality of life.
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I will finish master arts in 2018. By then, I will have paid an equivalent of around $100 for it. This includes two entry fees and costs of publishing both bachelor thesis and master one.
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This place is shit, yet we can't just migrate elsewhere and be welcomed with open arms, granted citizenship and integrate into society. We're just fucked.
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I will finish master arts in 2018. By then, I will have paid an equivalent of around $100 for it.
You parasite! /s
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That's... amazing. 100 dollars? Where the hell do you live?
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Poland. Studying here daily is free basically and all you pay are those small fees. Education shouldn't be commodified, and although Poland shows various symptoms of late capitalism, approach to education thankfully does not.
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I'm extremely jealous. It would probably cost less to immigrate to Poland than it would to get a master's here. Congrats on being near the end though!
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I got a black tube like that at my graduation. When I opened it, it contained a rolled-up flyer talking about student loan repayment. I'm not kidding.
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That's incredibly sick.
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I wish they waited that long for me. I was made to repay over a year before graduation and they wouldn't let me delay it.
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I started getting messages from them asking for payments several months before I graduated (I was part-time my last semester). The only way I was able to get them to stop was to apply for forbearance due to "financial difficulties."
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It's always funny to me. My wife has pretty much been unable to repay any of her loans because she makes so little. When she called to get a forbearance, the girl at the call center said, "Dude, I get paid more than that." She won't be paying them back any time soon, but the interest will likely continue to grow. What's worse is that she got her degree from Uni of Phoenix, and her degree is essentially useless.
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A woman? A person?
I think the individual can either be referred to by wife, or asset, depending on who you see as owning it.
Do I need to add a sarcasm tag here?
Apologies. Was morning. Was zonder coffee. No pasa nada.
What's more, it made reading the title confusing. I thought maybe it was emails about his loans, but she was the one wearing the cap and gown.
The r/funny OP began the post with "Fiancée..." since they're engaged. The OP here tried to translate the title to third-person but accidentally married them.
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