Microblog Memes

Calls from a recruiter literally every week and a monthly drop by because apparently that's an ok thing to do.

I didn't have that experience, but it was a given for anyone in honors/AP classes that you'd head to college--they didn't ask if you wanted to. My grades weren't that great, but weighted my GPA was still alright. My guidance counselor asked if I wanted in state or out of state; public or private; small, medium, or large; and what I'd like to major in. After I said in state, she talked about a state-funded scholarship that was really easy to get 75% of my tuition covered. So, I went to the local university and majored in the first thing I blabbed about in that meeting. I basically signed my name in a couple of places and I was off to college. Ended up fine for me, but it could have gone much worse if I was a few years younger.

Very controlling and didn't care about what we wanted in my experience. Wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Got a great scholarship to the school I wanted to go to, told me they'd disown me and not help if I moved out of state and ever failed. Showed where all income was coming from as it was Kettering University so with the scholarship and their program was set up for co-op, so you'd do school and internships (they help set you up with them too) back and forth through till you finish your degree. Nope.

Instead just wanted to put doubts in my mind and force me to go to a local University with the promise they would help me pay for it instead. Told me if I joined the Marines or such to get school paid for they would be pissed as well, my Uncle told my mother that a lot of people do well working after getting out of the military as they often get first dibs on positions, my mother didn't talk to her brother for months.

They never paid a dime to the school they wanted me to go to, I never liked their programs.. and when I did finally graduate had between $30-40,000 in debt.. no internship experience and just kept trying to work in IT with the experience I had built without a degree. (No one accepted applications in other fields)

Maybe someone has agreed to hire me for having a degree, but really all of them have seemed to hire me because I had years of experience working and suppoting the software/hardware they needed/had. After all, the experience they want isn't taught in any class I took to get the degree.

Throw in the $168,000 in rent I've paid since college and that would have turned into quite a bit of equity

I'm just saying if mortgages were treated like student loans we'd actually be in a better place as a society.