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re: Student loan delinquencies surge back after 5-year pause
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:31 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:31 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Why spend money on English literature class? What value am I getting from that?
Is this a serious post?
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Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:42 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Why spend money on an English literature class? What career value am I getting from that?
College is WAY to expensive to merely be job training. It should be returned to its original purpose -- as a finishing school for future leaders.
With that purpose in mind, English lit is incredibly useful because it leads to a deeper understanding of humans and human nature.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:43 pm to TxTiger82
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Why spend money on an English literature class?
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College is WAY to expensive
Exhibit A
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:46 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Is this a serious post?
Yeah. I feel there are better courses suited for life than English literature.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:51 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Yeah. I feel there are better courses suited for life than English literature.
If I had to draw it up from scratch, I would put engineering in trade school, and business schools would be split off into stand-alone institutions.
That would leave universities to do what they should have been doing from the beginning: Developing thought-leaders rather than workers and middle managers.
And yea, that shite SHOULD be expensive. Not just anyone can be a thought leader.
This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:52 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Is this a serious post?
It's a serious post. I think colleges should come up with a better curriculum than English lit to prepare students for their career and life.
This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:54 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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It's a serious post. I think colleges should come up with a better curriculum than English lit to prepare students for their career and life.
There’s quite literally nothing more important that being able to synthesize information and clearly convey your thoughts
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:55 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
English Lit for me was about abstract thought. What is REALLY being said. What message is being communicated and why. What frame of mind was the author in etc..
I have to admit. That certainly wasn’t a useless exercise.
I have to admit. That certainly wasn’t a useless exercise.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:56 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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It's a serious post. I think colleges should come up with a better curriculum than English lit to prepare students for their career and life.
You sound like an idiot tbh
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:57 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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There’s quite literally nothing more important that being able to synthesize information and clearly convey your thoughts
It's 200 year old texts. Colleges could offer more relevant courses that help students communicate clearly, manage workplace relationships, and understand modern media and writing styles.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:57 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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You sound like an idiot tbh
Well you're a dumb arse. SMTDB
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:58 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Colleges could offer more relevant courses that help students communicate clearly, manage workplace relationships, and understand modern media and writing styles.
You think they don’t do that?
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:59 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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You think they don’t do that?
Not enough of it.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 12:59 pm to Klark Kent
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this post belongs next to the term “disingenuous” in the TD dictionary.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:00 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Not enough of it.
It’d be less under your proposed model!
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:00 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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It's 200 year old texts. Colleges could offer more relevant courses
How old is the Bible?
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:06 pm to TxTiger82
The Republic
Meditations
The Prince
Critique of Pure Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
All pretty old at this point. Should we not read them?
Meditations
The Prince
Critique of Pure Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
All pretty old at this point. Should we not read them?
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:08 pm to TxTiger82
Some have called the 21st century the "Deleuzian Century."
Should colleges stop teaching "Difference and Repetition" because you don't find it relevant to your career?
Should colleges stop teaching "Difference and Repetition" because you don't find it relevant to your career?
Posted on 5/15/25 at 1:12 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
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would just be happy if they made a final decision on PSLF. Tired of being in limbo on how to plan for the future.
what do you mean a final decision? PSLF has never changed and is still active.
They're scrutinizing to make sure people are working for legitimate organizations/companies/agencies, but nothing has changed about it.
Posted on 5/16/25 at 1:27 pm to Steadyhands
How do you retire with 250K in student loan debt?
Boomers are in the crosshairs for student loan debt
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Farro’s loans date back 40 years. She was a single mother when she got a bachelor’s degree in developmental psychology and when she discovered she couldn’t earn enough to pay off her loans, she went back to school and got a master’s degree. Her salary never caught up. Things only got worse.
Around 2008, when she consolidated her loans, she was paying $1,000 a month, but years of missed payments and piled-on interest meant she was barely putting a dent in a bill that had ballooned to $250,000.
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That has led Social Security beneficiaries who have had their payments garnished to balloon by 3,000% — from approximately 6,200 beneficiaries to 192,300 — between 2001 and 2019
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Federal law protects just $750 of Social Security benefits from garnishment, an amount that would put a debtor far below the poverty line.
Boomers are in the crosshairs for student loan debt
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