Things you just don't get - Page 439

The college industry has successfully convinced a whole generation of students that "falling in love with a school" is the reason to make a school choice. Price is obviously a distant second consideration. Considering her parents had their house foreclosed on, I'm guessing she didn't get the best financial teaching at home. You want what you want, you deserve it, and so you buy it. Doesn't matter what you can afford, right?

Colleges are also some of the only organizations that can come to you with a straight face and say "we think you should give us thousands of dollars because you feel an affinity to our institution and you want to see us do well even though you no longer receive services from us and are likely still paying off the handsome fees that we charged you to develop that said affinity"

People have just ordered their coffee at Starbucks. Certainly they know the next phase of the transaction: the cashier asks you to pay. Why do people just start the process of fishing through their wallets for money at the point when the cashier asks for the money? Just grinds my gears, so to speak.

Charities?

College alumni associations are even worse/more shameless.

Think about it... half the time they are targeting the parents of the student before they even fucking graduate, then afterwards? They hit up graduates who are still paying off loans - but want to look like ballers/alumni success stories.

Every time I get one of those fundraising things from my law school, I just think "what did you do with that 70 grand I paid you a few years back? Oh right, built a shrine to George Bush. Fool me once..."