Things that are pissing you off. - Page 2787

Originally Posted by fuji 

I decided to work out how much my university costs per hour. At the LSE you have 4 hours of class a week, we also have 8 hours of lectures, but I don't go to any because for my subjects I think they're useless, i'd rather read my course book for an hour. We have 23 classes per subject per year and I have 4 subjects so thats 102 classes a year. Each class is actually only 50 minutes so we have time to get between classes, which is bull shit because theres only 4 classes a week so thats only 85 hours a year. Tuition is 15000 a year. I pay 176.47 pounds per hour of my education, which is basically having a first years masters student from some other school in london like brunell who most of the time has forgotten the details of his first year of university education and always gets confused and this is assuming I have perfect attendance, which I don't so in reality it's probably over 200 quid an hour for really shit teaching. Am incredibly russled, could do this at home with just my course books and commute to school for the exams. Also this isn't taking into account this 336 quid a week I need for accommodation and food.

Originally Posted by fuji 

I think you should have a pretty clear direction of what you want to do when you're like 16

Originally Posted by kwilkinson 

My boss is in Jamaica for the week. So not only do I get the pleasure of my typical 75 hr week, but I get to add all of her "owner" duties to my days. Funny how little you think someone does until you have to cover for them.

Originally Posted by fuji 

Yeah I heard it's even more in America. I was considering applying to NYU or Columbia, but it was like $50k a year and I'd have to do bullshit liberal arts stuff for 2 years to become well rounded so I can find out what I want to do even though I think you should have a pretty clear direction of what you want to do when you're like 16. Am considering doing my masters in the states, but then thats 2 years and higher fees or I can do it in 1 year here.

Originally Posted by fuji 

Yeah I heard it's even more in America. I was considering applying to NYU or Columbia, but it was like $50k a year and I'd have to do bullshit liberal arts stuff for 2 years to become well rounded so I can find out what I want to do even though I think you should have a pretty clear direction of what you want to do when you're like 16. Am considering doing my masters in the states, but then thats 2 years and higher fees or I can do it in 1 year here.

Originally Posted by LawrenceMD 

you're obviously a candidate for a Problem Based Learning system. They tried to implement it in medical schools during the 90's onward, but it didn't really stick. Some people are lazy and love to be spoon fed information and concepts. I loved sitting in lectures because it made reviewing source materials so much easier after.

But the times where they tried some modules in a problem based learning system I realized how awesome it could be, but some aren't just engineered to learn like that.

Originally Posted by in stitches 

moar moniez?

Originally Posted by Thomas 

LOL yeah I had no idea what I wanted to do at 16. I knew what I thought I wanted at 20, and by 22 I'd completely reversed course. By 30 I'd settled into a kind of niche, and at 40 I've more or less decided on what I'll be doing (and not what I was doing at 30). Unless something better comes along.

Originally Posted by why 

Some employers pay for a Master's, though, which makes avoiding study in America a moot point if you're studying a highly-sought-after degree in undergrad.

Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH 

My employer is paying for my MBA. But it still sucks because if you take a class that costs say $10,000 and the company reimburses you that $10,000 they have to take out the taxes as if it is normal income so at the end of an MBA degree at say NYU you still are stuck paying around $50,000 in taxes.

Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH 

My employer is paying for my MBA. But it still sucks because if you take a class that costs say $10,000 and the company reimburses you that $10,000 they have to take out the taxes as if it is normal income so at the end of an MBA degree at say NYU you still are stuck paying around $50,000 in taxes. What a lot of people do is get a student loan for that amount and write-off the interest.

Originally Posted by why 

Uhhh...how much does an MBA at NYU cost?

Originally Posted by kwilkinson