How did I get so "out of touch"?
Good parents and brains enough to come out of the wet climate change.
College is a four letter word to me. I have put five kids through college, one a masters, one a Phd and two medical school. The amount of financial aid I or they got would not mail a package home. I knew that going in and planned accordingly but it does piss me off to see so much other money wasted on people too dumb to pour piss out of a boot. God help you if your MD or Dentist took five years to get through college, which is the new norm, and then five years to get through medical school. You can't cure stupid but if you go real slow you can get it through just about any school given enough time and more importantly money.
School has become so expensive you can not work and pay as you go so students don't have a skin in the game. It's free money they think. You are forced to borrow money and end up getting a five year degree in what is a four program. Heck they take 12 hours and consider it full time. In my day, 12 hours would not get you a student deferment and your ass would get drafted taking that light a load. My lightest term was 19 hours and the worst was 29 hours. I paid my own way back then. Never borrowed from anyone. Worked my butt off and other here did I am sure as well.
My son had friends in Medical school who entered there already 200K in debt and could not borrow more money from the government. They had to borrow from private places which start charging interest from day one. The will be lucky to owe less than 500K when they graduate. Then three years additional training, or more, before making "Doctor Money". When that hits the health industry your health care cost are going to skyrocket again.
