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yeoman6987

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7. I worked full time going to college

Reply to questionseverything (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 01:42 PM

Oct 2015

I think it is good to a point. However, it depends on what you want to miss out. I missed a ton of parties and hanging out but in the big thing of life is that enough not to work? I don't know. Sometimes I wonder how it would have been not to work and just have fun. It is on my mind from time to time. But overall I was better off because I had no loans. This was from 1988-1992 for Bachelors at Florida State and then 1998-2000 for MBA at George Washington which was not cheap. It definitely is an individual decision and the long term effects will always be different. 10 hours a week doesn't seem unreasonable but are their enough jobs on campus for every student to work? Probably not.

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As a mother paying off Parent Plus loans and watching my kids try [View all] hedgehog Oct 2015 OP

is the ten hours a week hc wants kids to work supposed to go towards tuition costs? questionseverything Oct 2015 #1

Each student's situation is different - some have time for binge drinking at parties hedgehog Oct 2015 #3

I worked full time going to college yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #7

I worked part-time while going to college, but I had to quit hedgehog Oct 2015 #8

I would not have worked full time if I was engineering for sure yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #12

Wow! Fully agree on the messed up GPA. Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #14

the difference is now questionseverything Oct 2015 #10

Ideally bluestateguy Oct 2015 #2

Some of my kids had internships which led to permanent jobs - hedgehog Oct 2015 #6

Hillary supports students working because it provides cheap labor for Corporations. sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #16

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #4

I was afraid I'd get alerted on, but I took the risk hedgehog Oct 2015 #5

I would assume Chelsa got a full ride because of her last name Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #9

Possibly but then again we don't know what her cum was at sidwell or SAT scores yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #13

Plenty of people work and school Sunlei Oct 2015 #11

Chelsea is a National Merit Scholar finalist so she probably got a scholarship leftofcool Oct 2015 #15

Every child should have those opportunities. But of course, they don't. They at least should have sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #17