He sounds smug.

Yet another reason USA should permanently adopt the dollar coin.

I saw a particularly pissed student pay a parking ticket in pennies once. He loudly reminded the guy that he was obliged to take legal tender. We didn't care that it would take longer - we were just happy to see the parking cops get screwed like that.

styckx: That's some college they have there. My old job I used to count anywhere from 10-25k daily that was a mix of coin and all denominations of cash. It NEVER took an hour. Or did I ever need two additional people to help me with the complicated task of counting.

The two additional people were probably because they didn't have good cash handling procedures in place. Each of them counted the money and watch the others to make sure nothing was stolen. I worked at a bank for a year, and toward the end, I could count out $10k in 1s in ten to fifteen minutes, but if you have someone that isn't used to handling cash like that, I can see it taking an hour.

I hope they made the kid wait while they counted. I'd have made sure to have plenty of coffee breaks and bathroom breaks during said counting as well.

Please tell me it was in a burlap sack with a green dollar sign on it

I've been considering outlining and pitching a documentary about the insane cost of tuition. I should probably get in touch with this kid.

asinine costs is what happens when you have government sponsership of an institution, see

student loans

home prices

Marcus Aurelius: He's lucky a cop didn't catch him with that amount of cash. Because that $7,154 dollars would be gone, baby, gone.

It might be gone but they would be obliged to at least give him a receipt for the full $2,084 they took.

UNC_Samurai: I saw a particularly pissed student pay a parking ticket in pennies once. He loudly reminded the guy that he was obliged to take legal tender. We didn't care that it would take longer - we were just happy to see the parking cops get screwed like that.

Why? the parking cops are just doing their jobs. If the pissed student was illegally parked, then the pissed student was illegally parked. Instead of taking it out on joe blow parking cop, do something constructive and take it up with whomever owns the property the kid was illegally parked at.

go to an instate school, dumbass. or go to an ivy, and don't complain because your education is actually worth the ridiculous cost.

/went to an instate school
//bright futures paid tuition
///got a history degree
////pulling a bike rickshaw, lawl

Way to go student! You show teh system! Man the govt. sucks

/did he have to wait there while they counted it?

Being a young white guy is hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

White, rich AND in college? Goddman its nice.

And if he'd been mugged along the way?

You're not allowed to talk about how the price of college has gone up at a faster rate than health care, despite a college degree being worth less today than it was even a decade ago. Too many leftist friends on the take and it exposes a failure in policy by Clinton. This kid is a racist, obviously.

Dude, theatrics like that are not welcome by your peers.

Here, make sure you file your FAFSA application before the deadline:
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/deadlines.htm


/You're welcome, b/tches!

tototototo: Yet another reason USA should permanently adopt the dollar coin.

Yeah. Then the bag would have weighed like 250 pounds, and the kid could have beat the administrators to death with it.

=Smidge=
/Dollar coins are annoying as f*ck.
//Automated ticket machines in Penn Station give dollar coins for change.

University of Colorado non resident tuition: $14,000+ per semester
University of Colorado resident tuition: $4255
California State University resident tuition: $2450

The guy chose to go to Colorado instead of staying in Sacramento and going to his own state school, then he biatches about the high tuition. I imagine he also stands outside in the rain and yells at the sky, demanding it stop.

styckx: That's some college they have there. My old job I used to count anywhere from 10-25k daily that was a mix of coin and all denominations of cash.


I strongly suspect that the money you counted was sorted into piles of denominations, laid evenly and aligned facing up in stacks, rather then being a jumble of paper in a duffel bag.

You signed up for non-resident tuition, douchebag.

If he ever gets a job, say at McD's, I hope they pay him in pennies.

Stay in state and go to a state school.
Do not let your parents or someone making real money declare you as a dependent on their taxes.
Apply for Grants and NOT Loans.
Get Work-Study.
Be a Resident Assistant in the dorms.

And after 4 years your total bill for most places will be less than a good used car.

/Bonus round is wait until your older than 23 and they just about drive a dump truck full of cash to your front lawn.

The kid probably sells drugs and needed an excuse to pay his tuition in cash.

He sure showed that clerk. I mean who would want to handle a 33 pound duffel bag full of money? Link (new window)

I wish I had the time to do this. Frostburg State University charges a "convenience fee" for credit card payments if you don't go through their phone payment system that doesn't give you any confirmation that you paid to the correct account.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: I worked at a bank for a year, and toward the end, I could count out $10k in 1s in ten to fifteen minutes, but if you have someone that isn't used to handling cash like that, I can see it taking an hour.

By "someone who isn't used to handling cash" do you mean a university bursar's office cashier?

This has been done before...at CU. Many years ago (10-15) a student paid his tuition in pennies. He and his friends wheelbarrowed the tuition in.

Yeah, you showed them...PUNK!

Smidge204: tototototo: Yet another reason USA should permanently adopt the dollar coin.

Yeah. Then the bag would have weighed like 250 pounds, and the kid could have beat the administrators to death with it.

=Smidge=
/Dollar coins are annoying as f*ck.
//Automated ticket machines in Penn Station give dollar coins for change.

and 14 ounces. And no, I don't see how the kid in the video would be able to use a bag almost twice his weight as a weapon.

I really don't get the hate for coins though. The notes wear easily, especially if it's raining a bit and you get soaked with them in your pocket. If you are going to be carrying enough coins for weight or bulge to be an issue you should be carrying fives anyway. Also, they are easy to use in vending machines, even after being in circulation more than a week.

Nemo's Brother: You're not allowed to talk about how the price of college has gone up at a faster rate than health care, despite a college degree being worth less today than it was even a decade ago. Too many leftist friends on the take and it exposes a failure in policy by Clinton. This kid is a racist, obviously.

As long as government keeps subsidizing college tuition the price will continue to increase. (Just like health care.) Colleges have no incentive whatsoever to reduce costs because they know the students will always be able to get the money thanks to government guaranteed loans. These government loans don't help the students, they have to pay the money back. It's the colleges who benefit from the program because they get the money.

Yet another example of the government breaking your leg, handing you a crutch, and expecting you to be grateful for the crutch it provided.

been done before but
Approves.

ThrobblefootSpectre: styckx: That's some college they have there. My old job I used to count anywhere from 10-25k daily that was a mix of coin and all denominations of cash.


I strongly suspect that the money you counted was sorted into piles of denominations, laid evenly and aligned facing up in stacks, rather then being a jumble of paper in a duffel bag.

I also call bullshiat on anyone claiming to be able to count out 10,000 ones by hand in less than an hour. If you have a bill counter? Sure. If you have to individually, making sure none are stuck together and are bonded for the amount?

eddyatwork: I hope they made the kid wait while they counted.

Haha - brilliant. if they didn't think of that i'm sure they're kicking themselves now. You don't get your BigMac before they finish counting your nickels - why should this be any different?

This kid is an asshat in every way- but tuition is way too ridiculously high in this country. And it got that way in part because of government subsidies and in part because WAY too many people go to college.

It might be "free" Europe in Europe but a substantially fewer number of people go to University. You shouldn't need a 4 year degree costing $40,000 to $200,000 to be a bank teller.

I'm thinking the odds that this kid is majoring in something useless are about 7:1

Less than a hundred years ago you could work the factory floor at Ford for less than a year and afford 4 years of Yale tuition. Today it takes 20 years of low-interest tax-payer subsidized loans. Has the quality of the education at Yale gone up a thousand fold?

No, of course not. Rich people will always pay. Middle class will always borrow. And the poor - well screw em. We'll let a few in on sports and merit.

In that kind of market why wouldn't universities keep hiking their rates?

In the long run subsidies hurt more people than they help.

Lehk: asinine costs is what happens when you have government sponsership of an institution, see

student loans

home prices

Honestly, college is expensive because what it does is expensive, it costs way the hell more to educate you than you'll ever pay in in-state tuition. If you want the actual cost for a decent education, look at the tuition charged by big-name 4-year private colleges.

Government subsidy is why state schools were ever less expensive than MIT, Notre Dame, Harvard, etc in the first place. The reason they're correcting upwards is that government sponsorship has been reduced significantly in recent years.

Sure, money is still going from the government to universities, but it's generally going to research, not reduction of tuition. Well, kind of... roughly 2/3 of research grants are confiscated so that brohan can date-rape his way to a business degree, but it's not technically intended for that purpose.

Jim_Callahan: Lehk: asinine costs is what happens when you have government sponsership of an institution, see

student loans

home prices

Honestly, college is expensive because what it does is expensive, it costs way the hell more to educate you than you'll ever pay in in-state tuition. If you want the actual cost for a decent education, look at the tuition charged by big-name 4-year private colleges.

Government subsidy is why state schools were ever less expensive than MIT, Notre Dame, Harvard, etc in the first place. The reason they're correcting upwards is that government sponsorship has been reduced significantly in recent years.

Sure, money is still going from the government to universities, but it's generally going to research, not reduction of tuition. Well, kind of... roughly 2/3 of research grants are confiscated so that brohan can date-rape his way to a business degree, but it's not technically intended for that purpose.

yeah i'm not sure this is accurate. see my above post.
And yes, when a research grant is awarded the university takes a 40%+ cut off the top.

Public universities (the one i went to included) love pointing out that they are losing money on tuition - but there is no store where they sell 1 education for $X. These numbers are largely pulled out the air themselves.

The cost of land - government
The contracts to purchase equipment - government
pay rates - government

I could go on. but the point is there is a lot of fuzzy math going around. I'm not saying there should be no public universities but i've yet to be on a decent one that looks like its hurting for money in any way.

GoodyearPimp: If you have to individually, making sure none are stuck together and are bonded for the amount?

If you're used to handling cash you can tell just by touch if there are two bills stuck together.

It's just like someone who reads a lot can immediately tell if he's turned two pages instead of one just by feel.

I still think 10K in 15 minutes is crap though.

Skarekrough: Stay in state and go to a state school.
Do not let your parents or someone making real money declare you as a dependent on their taxes.
Apply for Grants and NOT Loans.
Get Work-Study.
Be a Resident Assistant in the dorms.

Get a job, any job, at a university and beside getting paid you'll often get free tuition as a benefit.

/Work at a university.
//Take courses for fun.

feckingmorons: Somebody forced him to go to an out of state school. The guy should STFU and give them a check, he should realize that if he were smarter his tuition would have been higher because he would have been accepted to a good school.

Smart people don't always want to waste money on pricey undergrad.

/chose Texas over Georgetown
//glad as hell I did

lexnaturalis: I still think 10K in 15 minutes is crap though.

yeah - that's like 11 ones a second. but to be fair, the original guy claimed he could count that much in all denominations:


styckx
My old job I used to count anywhere from 10-25k daily that was a mix of coin and all denominations of cash. It NEVER took an hour.



I imagine the bulk of it was larger bills and then shelling up the final count required counting small bills and coinage.

But 25k in $5 bills would still require some relatively quick counting to finish in an hour. around 3 bills every 2 seconds none stop for an hour....

even ten and twenty dollar bills would take some serious time if you were being careful.

Sure a bill every 3 seconds (in the case of the 20) sounds pretty easy, but doing that by hand 1,250 times is going to be pretty tiring.

but wtf do i know - i've never even seen that much money up close - i usually don't even have ONE 20 in my wallet ;p

Skarekrough: Do not let your parents or someone making real money declare you as a dependent on their taxes.

Their income can still fark you over on your fafsa. Unless things changed in the past years since i've graduated.

UNC_Samurai: I saw a particularly pissed student pay a parking ticket in pennies once. He loudly reminded the guy that he was obliged to take legal tender. We didn't care that it would take longer - we were just happy to see the parking cops get screwed like that.

When I was in Ann Arbor most of the government agencies would accept American or Canadian currency since we had a lot of people from Ontario passing through the area. It was a student tradition to pay all fines in a mixture of Canadian and American coinage. We thought we were clever little farkers, but as it turns out they had a shorting machine in the backroom. They'd dump our coins in, tell us it would take an hour to count it and go on lunch break. Touche parking enforcement, touche.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: I worked at a bank for a year, and toward the end, I could count out $10k in 1s in ten to fifteen minutes, but if you have someone that isn't used to handling cash like that, I can see it taking an hour.

When I worked at a bank, the most annoying part of counting $1 bills wasn't how long it took. Usually I'd only count them once instead of the standard three times because I didn't give a crap if I was a few bucks off at the end of the day. No, it was that one dollar bills are dirty motherfarkers. Even just going through one waitress' tips, maybe $200-$300 in ones, my hands would look like I'd been reading a newspaper in the rain. But unlike the newspaper, they STANK, too. Blech.

This guy's an asshole.