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<p>“Certainly everyone needs to provide for their families, however, no one arguably NEEDS their own house at 20, especially when others are suffering from the financial crisis.”</p>
<p>By your values, we should also only consume enough food to keep us alive. After all, there are people starving in Africa…</p>
<p>Ok, whatever, your life, you decide.</p>
<p>RP: Not the same thing. Having a house at 20 is pretty odd in the first place, just get an apartment or something. Starvation is a different issue, way to completely exaggerate what I said. I do not say live on the bare minimum, but a stable middle class existence is not the end of the world.</p>
<p>^ It’s ironic that you say that</p>
<p>“College should be thought provoking (no conservative of liberal bias here), people should be taught to open their minds, make bigger sacrifices for others than themselves and to be a little more humble after the experience, for nature ultimately decides our fate, not others opinions of us.”</p>
<p>Do you have any other personal morals that you would like to push upon society? Remember, your morals are not my morals (or anybody else’s, for that matter). </p>
<p>Who are you, Jesus Christ?</p>
<p>“Having a house at 20 is pretty odd in the first place, just get an apartment or something.”</p>
<p>Jesus Christ strikes again!</p>
<p>Anything else you think is odd? Because if you think something is odd, it surely should not be done!</p>
<p>“Starvation is a different issue, way to completely exaggerate what I said. I do not say live on the bare minimum, but a stable middle class existence is not the end of the world.”</p>
<p>I don’t know about that? Shelter and food both seem both seem similar to me in that they are both essential. I’m glad you are here to regulate how much of something I can have, though :)</p>
<p>In San Diego, having a house at 20 means that you go to SDSU and share it with 10 other people. Either that or it’s your parents’ house.</p>
<p>No, but college should be thought provoking. Isn’t it an institute of higher education? right? you should learn something for all that money. Anyway, as I said, your life, you decide.</p>
<p>Molly: I thought I said, I agree with people who study their passion, my best friend dropped out of college to study music, and I respect him more than anyone else. Also, I am not here for the money, I really don’t know how my life will play out, and certainly my major doesn’t have a booming job market right now, so being greedy doesn’t really factor into my education here.</p>
<p>Not to be all Miss California, but in this country we have colleges where you can choose what you want to do. If you want a fancy classical education you can go to Chicago, Columbia, or St. John’s. If you want to double major in Math and Russian while taking no classes in any other subjects, there’s schools like Brown and Hampshire. Different students have different needs.</p>
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<p>No, because that’s not important to me. If I wanted to learn a bunch of crap, I could drop out and go to the library every day. I’m in college because it’s a societal norm, and in order for me to work in the field I wish to work in, I need to get a degree. I hate learning (when related to school-type subjects). What I like to learn about isn’t taught in classes, so I’m just trying to get by and get out.</p>
<p>Just because learning for the sake of learning is important to you doesn’t mean it’s important to everyone.</p>
<p>The library can’t teach you that much, at least not the one I go to, you have to sit in on lectures :). Its fine, you and I differ on that issue, so I won’t force more ******** morals down your throat.</p>
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<p>No wonder you didn’t like Boston…</p>
<p>What’s that supposed to mean?</p>
<p>^New Eng prep kids and their broad liberal arts “learning for the sake of learning!” at Boston – must be what he ment.</p>
<p>ps Leaira I do that too but only when someone I hate is drinking / smoking… I don’t do it to strangers because I don’t care enough.</p>
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<p>Boston University isn’t really an LAC, but Boston is definitely a haven for learning. If you’re going to college for other reasons than pure learning (which isn’t necessarily good or bad), then it wouldn’t fit you.</p>
<p>P.S. - I’m a she.</p>
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<p>Well then I can tell you there are thousands upon thousands of college students in Boston who aren’t fitting in, in Boston…</p>
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<p>Then they’re at least managing, or they’d be transferring out in hordes.</p>
<p>Right, whatever you say. Thanks for the condescending post.</p>
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<p>Exactly. I’m 18, and have been a trader on-and-off for five years. Although the common conception is to buy & hold, I’ve found it much more profitable to trade in the very short term. This downturn has been a godsend for me- the last year was one of the easiest times for me to make money. As the stocks were falling (and many of my trader friends with positions in C, BAC, Freddie Mac/Fannie and the like were panicking), I was shorting, shorting, and shorting some more. On $16,000 in capital (which in turn came from $4000 of my summer wages invested in ticket scalping, I must admit), I’ve ended up with accounts in the neighborhood of $103,000 over little more than a year of active trading with the funds, (utterly destroyed my financial aid situation, btw). Although most my cash came in fits and starts (remember that ETRADE “bankrupty” fiasco? I shorted it on the way down, then bought it on the way up, for a profit of $24,000), it’s been an extremely fun ride. Still, there’s no way I’d skip college to trade full-time- I always want a backup plan.</p>
<p>Incidentally, my college decision was greatly impacted by my trading. Although I was accepted to Yale and Duke, the war chest I accumulated played hell with my FAFSA. As I was going to be the one to foot much of the college bill (my parents had a ~$5000 EFC before this; it approached $30,000 after), I made a tough call. I will be attending the University of Alabama this fall on a full-ride; yes, it’s not at the level of some of the schools I was interested in, but it means I get to go to college essentially for free. College decisions are different when you’re the one footing the bill, huh?</p>
<p>haha 90% of the posters on this thread just majorly treated leaira’s life.</p>
<p>Perhaps you could enlighten me on what majorly treating someone’s life means? Is it similar to “your welcome” (sic)?</p>