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> rampant party culture This greatly depends on the particular university. I really doubt there's much of a party at places like Cal Poly, Georgia Tech, or MIT when you compare them to FSU or a place like the University of Arizona.
Ah. Ha. Ha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFbDZyHxL2g
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Well there's that, and there's the fraternities. MIT, in my experience of having lived in Cambridge, is very much "work hard, play hard" for its undergrads.
Dude, GT also has a drinking song as it's official school song; yet there are no real parties on campus - you know regular events with tons and tons of debauchery. I think this is what you don't get if you've never experienced a real party school: there's mainly only playing hard and there's barely any work for a lot of your time there (or even all of it if you so choose). There are classes where all you have to do i…
Funny thing: I did my undergrad at the famously party-focused UMass Amherst, and it wasn't like that at all.
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Puts an upper limit on how harsh the debt load can get... on a month-to-month basis. If you're deciding affordability based on monthly obligation instead of total cost, you're doing it wrong.
The max total cost is 10% of your income for 20 years. After 20 years you just stop owing any money, you're done. Making the monthly payment is more important than total nominal cost. That's because missing a payment adds penalties that make it much more difficult to get out of debt. So making sure the monthly amount is doable is really important.
Of course it is, but you can't be so preoccupied with the monthly affordability that you forget about the total cost. (N.B. this is a trick car dealers use every day to get you to pay too much for a car)
In this sense it's not unlike the US healthcare debate where everyone was so preoccupied with how to make hospital bills affordable with government-mandated insurance that we totally forgot to ask why an aspirin costs $75 in the first place.
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Dude, GT also has a drinking song as it's official school song; yet there are no real parties on campus - you know regular events with tons and tons of debauchery. I think this is what you don't get if you've never experienced a real party school: there's mainly only playing hard and there's barely any work for a lot of your time there (or even all of it if you so choose). There are classes where all you have to do i…
>I think this is what you don't get if you've never experienced a real party school: there's mainly only playing hard and there's barely any work for a lot of your time there (or even all of it if you so choose). Funny thing: I did my undergrad at the famously party-focused UMass Amherst, and it wasn't like that at all.