The College Dream – Debt
Yesterday I wen’t to class just like any normal day and before I sat down the teacher told me that Financial Aid needed to see me before I could enter class. Now, most of the time this trip to financial aid is to sign paper’s where they forgot to dot an I or cross a T but this time it was to hit me up for another $11,000.00USD. Geez I said; you just got 11 grand from me less than 6 months ago. This would all be fine if I would have actually learned something substatial since April but I have found myself on more than one occasion correcting the teacher and for the last three terms have just been bored out of my skull.
Now, I am not blasting my school I think it is great with all of the hands-on training they give and all of the bonuses it just seams that I have paid a lot of money and have not recieved an education. In my schools defense, I do have 10+ yrs of experiance in the field that I am going to school for and have been doing High-Level programming for the past 3 yrs. So I am not there average gardener turned computer wiz.
What is your take?
Should there be a further accelorated program in college that would allow people like me to reach a higher level faster?
Thanks for reading and let me know
David Bates
Funny you post this David, I always considered going to school to get an official degree in architecture so I would have “credentials”. I found that I would spend HUGE amounts of time learning Acad, a program I would never use. All I wanted was to learn about Architecture but found that it’s not about learning but about being able to prove you basically have an idea what you are doing with a degree. I think the most talented people in some cases cannot deal w/ going to school because they are to eager to do something worthwhile and productive to give back to society. Sorry for the rant but David in the time you spent the 11k you could make 20k. One good app is all it takes to get a foothold….:)