my heart bleeds for them.

It wouldn't be a problem if you didn't already waste your virginity. I hear that's going for a pretty penny on Ebay.

I think this guy was screwing with the interviewer.



OUTGOINGS
Rent: 175 per month, shared house
Food: 25 per week
Typical meal: Meat and two veg
Going out: 40 per week
Other expenses: Petrol and running a car



Incidentally, is it a bad thing that about two students into the article I just started scrolling down the page to see if there were any hot chicks?

You got further than I, El Presidente.

Actually, I was looking for one of the Onion's "What Do You Think" people.

I'm getting paid to attend college. ;)

WTF are they talking about? All of them are getting help from their parents. Two words for ya: candy ass!

fark you ya bludy wankas.

By today's exchange rates, I left law school with 56,911.30 pounds of debt.

I have little pity for these blokes.

I think this guy was screwing with the interviewer.

I think "meat and two veg" is just a colloquial idiom for a basic diet, not an oblique reference to his naughty bits. I think the origins of the phrase go back to WWII during the German bombing campaign, rations were scarce, etc.

Blah blah blah blah, lets get out the violins.

Stop you whining come to America and get FASTA. Thats how I'm getting by. Thank god for govrenment money. Wait a second I got to pay it back.

Creep Vassalage
Get out! Ya think?

Course: Criminal Justice and International Relations
Year: Repeating 2nd
Home: Kent
Current debt: 13-14,000
Debt by course end: 14,500

Repeating years is one way to ensure an inflated college debt.

Farker Chime
Course: Comp Sci & Econ
Year: 4th of 4
Home: New Brunswick, NJ
Current debt: $25,000
Debt by course end: $30,000
Rent: $500 per month, basement room 8ft x 10ft
Travel: $0 per week
Food: $50 per week
Typical meal: Crap
Going out: You're kidding right?
Other expenses: TotalFark account $50 per year

Additional Info:

After graduation: No hope whatsoever
How will you pay off loans: eBay both kidneys
Where do you see yourself after 10 years: Homeless

And kidneyless, eyeless, liverless, hopeless :-/

In socialist England, collage pays for YOU. Seriously though, 1200 a year is getting off pretty easy. Hell, as my Econ prof put it(with graphs and everything)...college there is OVER subsidised. People can stay longer than is of financial benefit to the society whos taxes put them though....

/flameon

In soviet Ontario, tuition freezes you!

Doesn't help much, but what the hell, better than nothing.

Waffen-SS, yeah, but you're screwed when the freeze comes off... look what happened in BC a couple of years ago.

Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to be done this year or next.

The first guy, Tom Gorman, said ...you know...the phrase that gets changed to "boobies" at the end of the last paragraph.

Fark that, as a foreigner, I have to fork over BPS 7,000 a year, plus I keep my own flat. I have no pity, the schools make money on us non EU residents to help lower the costs of EU and British students. I really don't mind till my classmates start whining, I chose to go to school. Some have less total school debt then I incur for one year though and they have the nerve to complain to me.

Check out the blonde most of the way down the page. She says "I did work in bars during my first and second years. But I want to get a good degree and it does affect your studies - so this year I am more restricted financially."

However, her 'going out' expenses are per night what the other people spend per week.

i take out loans for almost $20,000 every school year. not including summer term. and that's a public school in california. imagine next year when our "education first" governator terminates all student resources and raises our tuition fees more than davis would have! WOO HOO! i'm stoked for my debt when i'm 22. i couldn't imagine going to a private school...geesh...

i dont want to even read the article, im having to drop 7 grand a semester for school alone, and then shiat like today where i get told i didnt pay my tuition (luckily ive got the receipts) i didnt pay my meal plan (once again receipts) and even better yet, without my knowing changed my name to zachery and theyre shoving a roomate in with my on friday even though i paid higher to be without one since i only have 8 computers in this room

...and when all is said and done, the british are still funny looking.

I have educational debt totalling around $70,000, and it will only increase. Over here, all they do is complain about fees being instituted. My response: either take it like a man, or prepare to start giving some very important MPs head.

Here in Australia, we have HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme), which is an interest free loan that pays all our tertiary education fees, and is paid back by taking it out of your tax returns once you make enough money. :)

I'm over $100,000 in debt for tuition from undergrad and law school and have no job lined up for after I graduate this year. I don't want to hear it from them. Go have some more tea.

I paid nothing for my education, as the government covered the whole thing when I went to University. When I worked during the breaks, I got to spend all the money on beer and prostitutes, and when I left I had no student loans, so could afford even more beer and prostitutes.

How are brewers and brothels supposed to make a living now?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Gimme a break. Talk about paying for your own school, I still owe 40K on my education. It would have been more, but I worked two jobs the last two years of school. Oh, and I consider myself lucky too.

LawyersRock

There's always barber college. I keed, I keed!

Methinks Lawyers Roll....roll themselves into tiny little balls and cry in the corner at their $100,000 debt. Holy fark that is an s-load of money.

...and that's a public school in california......i'm stoked for my debt when i'm 22

Californians are easy to spot.

enotnerT

I have one better. I have lived in the same flat since I got to Leicester, have a mobile, a land line, email and all the information is in the school computers. I also go to my department almost everyday, yet, when I paid my tuition and they had a problem processing it, they send a bill by regular mail to my elderly father in North Dakota, where I have not lived in ten years. It took 4 weeks to get there, and by then they were threatening to expel me. Funny, they found my phone number to threaten me with expulsion. Bah.

My old roommate has a loan payment of 1500 dollars per month. This is for paying med school though.

Good thing he makes enough as a doctor to actually afford the payments.

Funniest thing is that the standards of degrees are dropping in this country due to the government's pressure to increase the number of students in higher education. Soon the market's going to be full of unemployable people with worthless degrees and huge debts.

I might get a slave. I've always wanted one.

College single handidly the most worthless experience in my life. Didn't help my career didn't help me get any jobs didn't help me get paid any more. Kids don't go to college.

jay_vee

What perks are you offering?

Paying for their own education? All of them admit to having their parents help pay for things. How does that qualify as paying for it themselves?

midnightmuse:- I'll make every other Thursday a no-whipping day.

Sasquatch
Right On! I can't believe how med school is oversubsidized over graduate school in BC/Ca. Hell, we scientists tell the doc-types what to do, and they get the big bucks?

Ok... they get to kill people, we only get to kill non-people.

HA! That's not debt!
My debt from just THIS YEAR of college loans: $43,000
His debt from 5 YEARS: $45,600

Rebby...should have been an engineer. I don't know any canadian engineering students in grad studies that are paying to go. UBC Gives $12,500 + Tuition, McMaster $16,000 + Tuition

Then again we kill many people at once with engineering disasters....

daveuf
Californians are easy to spot.
Dude. Hella.

"how they cope with the existing tuition fees of 1,125 a year"

That's like, what...$2500? Cry me a river...

/jealous

peart2112
College was useless? I went to a private institution and the tuition was less than how much I would've had to spend on hookers for the same amount of sex.

Meh - depends on your degree. Communications, Journalism, Underwater Basket Weaving, Psychology.

/Phil major

You see this? This is the world's smallest violin and I'm playing it for you English blokes!

My education at a private school in the good ole US of A costed about 24k per year! Thankfully, I think it was worth every penny...except for the fact that I don't have a job yet. Fark!

I'm hispanic on my dad's side. I got free cashola to go to school. And my parents are loaded!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

All my "white" friends were out working for their education while I smoked weed all day on the cash my dad gave me for rent, etc...

Oh yeah I banged alot of chicks too. As a matter of fact I banged a few of my friends girlfriends while they were out working!!

I'm Cuban, but look like my mom - she's Irish. And NO ONE ever checked to see if I was hispanic or whatever. I put it on my app and I got the $$$$.

I recommend you all do the same, no matter what you are. Put down African-American and dare them to challenge you!

Then you too can be a dope smokin', chick bangin' fool!!