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wolf · 09-02-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggy

I think I resent that... I would have gotten all of the answers right and I go to a community college (seeing as how it is cheaper than state colleges and I am paying my own way)

Hopefully your community college system is entirely different than ours ... but locally the Community Colleges are more like extension high schools, and have a lot of remedial math and english classes.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-08-2005, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

... but locally the Community Colleges are more like extension high schools, and have a lot of remedial math and English classes.

And a whole lot of the student body desperately need the remediation. If I went back to college I'd probably have to do remedial math myself -- high school algebra was a long time ago and I only barely scraped by then. Community colleges are really more like high schools, as you said, and it's true about everywhere. They give a lot of bang for the buck, though, if their curriculum offerings match what the kid's after studying.

But the quality of college-age if not college-ready written English has long been a problem. Strunk & White's well-written and extremely valuable
The Elements of Style, a slender handbook, has been continuously in print since the mid-twentieth century. I believe it began as a class handout.

Oh, and textbooks cost like a large tank of gas.

Happy Monkey · 09-02-2005, 12:30 PM

The numbers I posted are aggregate. In the pdf they were subdivided into level of education.

Trilby · 09-02-2005, 01:22 PM

Ah, wolf, you're an elitist and you know it. Just say so! Nothing to be ashamed of! All love starts with self-love, y'know.

wolf · 09-02-2005, 01:33 PM

Looking down on the community college is all I got. After all, I went to the State College.

Iggy · 09-02-2005, 01:34 PM

Well, if I had several thousand dollars to spare I would go to a state college too.

But that doesn't mean that I am not going to go to college at all because I can't afford to go to "nice" schools

Kagen4o4 · 09-03-2005, 01:25 AM

current university fees for kagen= $15,000+
come study in oz

Iggy · 09-05-2005, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Kagen4o4

current university fees for kagen= $15,000+
come study in oz

Jeez!!! That is a lot of money... is that a year or a semester? Since I am paying out of pocket I can only go part time (i.e. 5-6 credit hours per semester) so I pay about $500+ a semester, which is doable. But $15,000+? No. Way.

Kagen4o4 · 09-05-2005, 12:32 AM

its after 3.5 years so far, ill finish after 4.5.
its called HECS. and i'll be paying it off for quite some time when i get a full time job

Iggy · 09-05-2005, 03:27 AM

Ok... thats much better... but at least I am free and clear as far as student loans since I am paying as I go. Later I will have to get loans though, so I won't be free and clear forever. Good luck!

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-08-2005, 12:54 PM

Father's chromosome, not gene.

Ero, when your best friend looks up solipsist...

Happy Monkey · 09-08-2005, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Father's chromosome, not gene.

Quite true. Bad paraphrase on my part.

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09-02-2005, 01:34 PM	#6
Iggy Back and ready to tart up the place Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 850	Well, if I had several thousand dollars to spare I would go to a state college too. But that doesn't mean that I am not going to go to college at all because I can't afford to go to "nice" schools

09-03-2005, 01:25 AM	#7
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	current university fees for kagen= $15,000+ come study in oz

09-05-2005, 12:32 AM	#9
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	its after 3.5 years so far, ill finish after 4.5. its called HECS. and i'll be paying it off for quite some time when i get a full time job

09-05-2005, 03:27 AM	#10
Iggy Back and ready to tart up the place Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 850	Ok... thats much better... but at least I am free and clear as far as student loans since I am paying as I go. Later I will have to get loans though, so I won't be free and clear forever. Good luck!

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