Quack Fix: LaMichael James prepares for the NFL and a baseball preview

honestly, I never felt like we had a real chance with Shaq. I’m just disappointed he didn’t choose Cal.

Is that LMJ is referencing ‘a 4.2’ as anything in the range of 4.2 to 4.29. So, in the 4.2s rather than an actual 4.2.

Sorry Daisy, MCD, MCD Mom. Especially you Daisy, I hope I didn’t scare you into thinking your eldest was leading a double-life as a Marine/4th grader.

I can’t say whether or not your son will be a doctor but I will leave you with some parental advise. I strongly suggest signing up for DirecTV.

and then transition into a free year of college! Hehe. I work for Chemeketa, and that’s my shameless plug for our high school/college transitions program.

They can go to UO/OSU

my parents could only help a little and my scholarship was partial so I ended up with loans, which I hated and still have some (luckily govt loans with like 2.9% interest), but as you said, it just doesn’t seem feasible to pay for it all for them.

Oh, and if they go to OSU, they will pay for it all themselves and I’ll take that 529 money and buy myself a boat

I had no appreciation of the sacrifice they were making, and as a result, I never put the effort into it that I should have. I was even academically suspended once because of my laziness. I did bounce back and graduate, but my GPA is still an embarrassment. When I went back later to get a post-bac (paid for by my employer at the time), I got a 4.0 because I put in the appropriate effort. I’m a big fan of delaying college, so I’m going to encourage my kid to join the military after high school, and take some time to figure out whether or not college is for him.

My daughter, was able to get a Tuition Waiver, that’s right, waived, because my wife works at UAA. She chose to go to PSU. It’s amazing how quickly, they figure out that you weren’t kidding, about how expensive it is to live and go to school. Luckily for her though, my wife starts her new job at PCC, on Monday and my daughter can use a tuition waiver for her first two years there, because she now see the sense of saving money. We are very lucky that my wife has a job in higher ed, and can give her this opportunity, my wife and I both had to take student loans, and are still paying them off.

my wife was very lucky. She had a fairly well to do uncle that paid her undergrad tuition at UO, and she got to live at home as she grew up just blocks off campus.

Most of her grad school debt was wiped away for teaching in a Title I school for five years.

it throws investment and smart planning out the window. No one can reasonably expect to make over 8-9% interest per year over 20 years, so that means smart investing just keeps you even.

especially for those that don’t have any idea what they want to focus on. My wife started at CC and realized that what she really wanted to do, her best route was a trade school and now she owns her own business. Instead of $10k+ in student loan debt, her school is paid off and she is doing a job she loves.

That’s a good question, and I don’t know the answer. I want to say that it’s easier to establish residency here, but that’s just a guess because I know how incredibly hard it was to do at Oregon.

In order to qualify for in state tuition, an individual needs to live in the state for a year doing something other than going to school. You can’t go to school for a year and then, in year two, qualify for in state tuition.

show “intent to live in CA permanently”, which is vague, and, if they are in school, have to be financially independent (not claimed as a dependent on your tax return)

And amazingly a ton of kids come to Cali to go to JC. Its seems crazy to go out of state for CC, but the upside is pretty big. I dont know about up north, but in SoCAl, for UCLA, a lot of kids go to College of the Canyons in Valencia which has a great transfer program to the UC system so most kids go there to transfer to UCLA. Get their gen ed out fot eh way and then pay instate tuition to state school. I dont know what the tuition is at the CC level the first year while residency is established though.

http://wiche.edu/wue
Western Undergraduate Exchange: ‘Students who are residents of WICHE states are eligible to request a reduced tuition rate of 150% of resident tuition at participating two- and four-year college programs outside of their home state.’

but I am going to go home and tell my husband that an anoymous guy on an internet sports fansite told me that 529s are bullshit.

I have felt that it actually prepared me quite well for a career in business. Now, I’m not in finance or accounting of course, but as far as general business/management goes, I feel like it was a good starting place.

that when I talked above about expecting my kids to go to college, trade school counts, IMO.

It was expected I’d go to college, but not required so long as I wasn’t just taking the money and heading off to Santa Fe.

That being said, if I was interested in a field that didn’t require a college education to be viable in, I probably would have thought long and hard about my options.

Seriously, fund Metal/Wood/Auto shop, bring back culinary programs, fuck it bring back all the applied arts.

Not looking forward to entering the job market when I get there, but… it is what it is, and I promised myself that I wouldn’t worry about the job market until I was done with the dissertation. (This is a useful self-defense mechanism for me.)

I’m doing law, so I guess I’m in a similar boat.

There will ALWAYS be a market for lawyers.

… but Max has been telling his friends that he’s looking forward to going out of state. Going to Pullman is like going out of the country.

It’s just….weird.

Our 2 occasional SC contributors have made a pretty good case supporting that conclusion. Apparently it was the blogosphere that created that rumor and solidified it into truthiness.

“Different, but same.”

I’d rather the guy follow his passion and figure it out on his own.