‘93 wasn’t even that long ago really. Shocking how much it has skyrocketed since then. 

Continuing education requirements pretty much demand that you get a masters. It’s not necessary to start, but by year 5/6 you should. I live in a state with very high requirements to get certified as well. The GPA and score on the certification test are the highest in the US, at least it was when I got certified.

Where I live, Oakland, there are thousands of people living openly in tents on the street corners, and have for years. These people literally don’t have a pot to piss in, and it’s not just Oakland, it’s everywhere these days.

This response is particularly maddening given that it is being voiced by many folks in the generation that actually DID have free or close to it college available to them through heavily-subsidized state school programs. So, basically Go F yourself, Grandpa. Your opinion means less than nothing to me.

Im honestly glad I waited till I was 25 to finish my degree. In the years in between I figured out what I wanted to do and I go a handle on life and the real world.

I graduated high school in 2002. One of my best friends was top of the class and very intelligent. He decided not to go to college right away because he would be paying his own way and decided not to go until he saved up and knew what he wanted to do. He got an unfair amount of grief from teachers and family because…

I find this extremely frustrating. Everyone told us growing up the only option was to go to college and get the degree otherwise we would be doomed to a life of mediocrity. In fact when I didn’t go to college right away (I did two years of community college then took a break till I was 25 when I finished up) My family…

you’d think they’d like it because not having to pay student loans and having cheap childcare would get their Millennial kids to finally pop out some grandkids so Boomers would have something to do other than watch Fox News and bitch about how the world doesn’t think they’re cool anymore.

Right? I was thinking about how all of the people screwed by places like University of Phoenix, which lead to quite a number of those 50K+ debt loads, would finally get some justice and as for-profits disproportionately scam the poor and people of color, that’d be great.

As a fellow Oaklander and zero student loan debt-haver - lol no. This take is so, so bad.

And as for the Oakland comment, it’s undeniable that student loan forgiveness disproportionately helps white folks and others from more privileged backgrounds and isn’t very “progressive.”

It’s kind of weird that older voters are upset over the idea of student loan forgiveness. More and more of them are being saddled with student loan debt after their kids default:

Calling degrees “worthless” just because they don’t necessarily translate to a high-income position post-college is so, so idiotic. 

It is completely bananas how much we pay for college. I went to community college for the first 2 years of undergrad in the late 90's/early aughts and thankfully that cost me less about $1,000 a semester. I could barely afford that. I had to work full time to pay tuition and rent but I lived in a relatively low cost…

1993 was the last year an undergraduate could pay a year of tuition through a summer time minimum wage job.

“i have a worthless liberal arts degree and this minimum wage barista job means i can’t afford to pay it back” feels like someone who never took their obligation seriously to begin with - they did not plan for how to pay it back.

I wish that boomers had a better understanding of how we got to this place. When they went to college, the majority of the budget at state schools actually came from states. Now they barely contribute and are state schools in name only. So their education was funded and supported by the public. This is the same thing,…

The cost of college is untenable. I know at the University of MN a huge chunk of the budget goes to cover the also untenable health insurance costs of current and pensioned employees, which is another point in favor of single-payer healthcare.

What a shitty take. 

The baby boomers before us went to college for a FRACTION of what it costs now - my parents boast of community college courses either being free, OR CLASSES TOTALING $15 a semester. Compare that to the 20K it costs for a 4 year degree at a state school (that’s the cost if you live at home - god forbid you need money…