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Re: Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds

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I don't think so. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/educatio...

Yeah. That's a long way from tuition is already deductible. Some tuition is deductible (or can be credited) if your income is below a limit. Up to $2,500.

It's disingenuous to use that as a reply to a post about the tax deductibility of a contribution to a charity.

Re: Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds

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>If you attend in person, you have to do tons of assignments, labs, exams Exactly. Even as a self-taught developer, one of my biggest regrets is how little I appreciated the incredible resources I had available at university and didn't really take advantage of or appreciate.

About halfway through my college experience, I switched gears from extreme attendance-and-attentive-note-taking to extreme self-teaching, out of necessity (I was taking too many classes and working simultaneously, so I didn't have time to attend each lecture each week). Of course, I still did the homework assignments, studied for exams, etc. Except for the occasional "gotchas" where professors say something random in…

> 50%: The (well-written) syllabi. They point out which resources (books, blogs, websites, etc) are worth your time, if you have an interest in the subject. The best ones are filled with opinions, and "optional resources if you want to dive deeper into X". Even the lazily-constructed ones are a great foundation if you have no idea about how to begin learning X.

Do you have any pointers to online examples of syllabi you found useful? My syllabi are always to the point and focussed on the structure of the class; it's never occurred to me that someone might want to use them as a roadmap for independent learning, and I'd be interested in facilitating that.

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