cooncrazy30
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quote:
Originally posted by CLJohnson
Just so we can have some numbers to work with:
Any Ten Meal Plan On-Camp $1,566.00
Bus Admin Course Fee $240.00
Engineering Course Fee $216.00
Facility Fee $160.00
Housing Learning Community Fee $50.00
I/S Undergraduate Maintenance $3,901.00
Library Fee $10.00
Non-Commuter Parking Tag $290.00
North Carrick Residence Hall $2,545.00
Prog & Serv Fee-Health $89.00
Prog & Svc Fee-Primary $255.00
Technology Fee $100.00
Transportation Fee $26.00
Undergraduate Study Abroad Fee $5.00
This is my first semester's bill, for those that say "well i went to college and payed for it myself" I would ask when did you go to college? College prices have risen by LARGE amounts over the last few years and don't appear to be dropping. For those of you with younger children, I will say that I had the same aspirations, and my thought process was probably the same "why would someone not go to college, work hard, get scholarships, it isnt that bad". What you quickly find out is you truly are a big fish in a small pond. I graduated 3rd in my class, from a high school rated nationally with a 4.1 GPA, taking AP courses, almost all Honors courses and college course work. I did community involved projects, volunteer fire dept. volunteering for fund raisers, coordinating special olympic events, and starting new clubs within the high school. My point here being there are currently 26,000 other people on this campus that did the exact same things and some did more, the full ride expectations for a major university should be low just because of this. As I said before I am paying roughly 8000 a year, 4000 a semester thanks to scholarships and Gov. aid. With tuition, parking, meals, etc. expected to grow that number will likely grow by the time I get my undergrad degree. I work 40 hours a week in the summer time in a steel factory making electrical boxes to help pay my way actively while going through so I don't get hit with huge loans to pay back (huge being in perspective with those who are paying out of state tuition, 40,000 a year) I work very little during school as I need to keep my grades up to get into grad school, I carry 15 hours of classes to attempt to graduate in 4 years even though the recommended amount for engineers is 12 which coincidentally, is the minimum allowed to be tagged as "full time". I don't think you should be handed anything and have worked to get where I am BUT I do believe that if we are going to cut funding we should look toward something that doesn't impact future generation quite as much, maybe institute a flat tax across the board? Maybe cut back on tax breaks? How about an outlandish idea, cut back on salary for our representatives.
If u cant afford to go its not my problem ( tax payers) I payed my way what way i went then i joined the military! Im sick of people blameing republicans because they dont belive in give hand outs! Where are we sapouse to get the money to put u throught college? Oh raisse taxes on the rich so they stop expandeing bussiness thus stop hireing people out of college where they then take a job they coulda got with out a degree!
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