OT: Ugly people

Oh, dear, you've just gone and inflamed the wrath of the great and wonderful Oooz >:-} ...Jim Thompson

Diabetes causes terrible verbal diarrhea. Much to the detriment of rational debate.

I'm just bitter because while they accepted me, the financial aid package they offered didn't make it financially workable.

I'm definitely not going 100k into debt to go there...

How old are you?

I got almost 100% scholarship at MIT... had to work to pay the books part... probably a token thing ;-)

I washed dishes in the Grad House cafeteria my first year :-(

Technician for Woodson, Jackson, Melcher in Building 20 after that. ...Jim Thompson

First year of college was 1996 so you do the math... ;)

IIRC tutution was quite high even back then. After that and room board and books I'm sure each year would have been in the high 30s. And they were only offering to knock off something like 5.

I'm pretty sure they just accepted me because my father was an alumni. They didn't really want me.

Syracuse offered me almost a full ride, but after touring the school I knew I wouldn't be happy there.

I finally ended up at a small (yet in the same price range as BU) liberal arts college who made me an offer I couldn't refuse...

So you're 8 years younger than my youngest ;-)

We had riots at MIT complaining "$1000 is too damn much!" ;-)

(57 years ago... isn't it nice... inflation)

...Jim Thompson

$1000 would probably get you a low miles 1958 Cadillac Eldorado in 1962.

$1345 bought me a brand new Renault Dauphine in 1961 (in Boston, Luby Chevrolet, IIRC). ...Jim Thompson

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It's not inflation, but rather a deliberate choice to make tertiary educati on more expensive. Discussions about increasing income inequality in the US do tend to include quite a bit about the way the cost of a tertiary educat ion has gone up a lot faster than inflation since Reagan got to be presiden t.

Tertiary education used to be the primary route into better paid jobs in th e US (as it is in most advanced industrial countries), but now it has been priced out of the reach of most working class kids - unless they are brave enough to risk taking on a mountain of debt by starting to study for a tert iary degree where they typically have a roughly an even chance of completin g it.

Australia isn't much better. The Dutch and UK systems still seem to be more or less egalitarian - it's hard to persuade working class kids in the UK t hat they can think about going to university, but the universities do work at it.

One of our UK friends, whose mother ran a garage in south London, and who p ut in a year running a betting shop before he went off to university, is no w a fellow of Kings College, Cambridge, and devotes part of his time to get ting schools in working class areas to put their brighter students through the Cambridge scholarship exams.