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Re: Bailout fever- student loans

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Originally Posted by jviehe View Post
Right on. I cant even imagine the watse that goes on around sports teams at colleges. One problem with college is that it has become more of a party than an education. More students should be steered to vocational schools, which are quicker and cheaper, than 4 year colleges where they drink more than they study, and in any case have to waste 2 years taking classes they already did in high school, and will forget anyway. Do high school grads really need another 2 years of math in order to get a art history degree?
Most of my collegiate education has been in business or engineering so I never even though about how useless some degree requirements are (engineering and business degrees don't offer a lot of room for "fluff").
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