<p>This story made me laugh.</p>
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<p>Can you imagine if the tuition was $55K? HA!</p>
<p>It’s a cute trick. I just wish he had a better ‘cause’ to promote for it. Hard to feel empathy for whining about out of state tuition costs-- no one forced him to leave California to attend CU. </p>
<p>And while he says seeing that much money in dollar bills makes him appreciate the cost, and ‘not want to skip class’ I would imagine that him valuing education for its own sake, and working through the school year and all summer would help a lot more in that regard as well :)</p>
<p>maybe he shouldn’t have gone to school out of state</p>
<p>My daughter is a graphic design major at SCAD, and I remember visiting the bookstore during an open house her senior year of HS and seeing that they had chunks of stone for sale for sculpture students. They reminded me of giant landscape stones, and they were nearly $100 a piece. I looked at that pile of rocks with my husband and said “Piece of cake…we just load a dump truck up with stones and drop it off at the bursar’s office to pay her tuition. At $100 per rock, one load should do it for the year”.</p>
<p>This is not a new idea. </p>
<p>Back in my college days there were kids who thought they were making some kind of point or creating extra work for the school by paying their tuition in pennies. The school’s reaction was basically to have no reaction, and just take the coins, thereby pulling the rug out from under their protest.</p>
<p>Carrying around that much cash these days has one serious drawback - if the cops find that much cash on you (if you got pulled over for speeding, for example), they would instantly assume you were dealing drugs and confiscate the money. You would have a heck of a time getting it back, too.</p>
<p>Just withdrawing that kind of cash will raise flags at the bank - in addition to annoying them. I’ve withdrawn a few thousand at the local bank before and they were annoyed because it affected what they had on hand. They told me that I should call ahead of I’m going to take out that much cash. I guess that everyone goes with credit cards or travelers checks on vacation these days.</p>