Archive for September, 2009
Students Get College Credit For Playing Guitar Hero?
The average four-year college education costs over 50 thousand dollars. Parents write out tuition checks assuming that their kids are being taught valuable knowledge and skills -skills taught by an experienced professor. So how would you feel if you found out that you were paying $1,078 per credit hour for your kid to play Guitar [...]
September 10, 2009
Tags: facebook class, guitar hero class, twitter class Posted in: Waste-of-time classes 
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Is College Debt Worth It?
For an article in USA Today,Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University attempted to answer the question using number-crunching data from the free software he developed called ESPlanner Basic.
He analyzed four hypothetical scenerious to determine lifetime disposable income of 18-year olds:
1)Â Â Â Â Â One who borrows $30,000 a year to attend a four-year college.
2)Â Â Â Â Â One who borrows [...]
September 1, 2009
Tags: College Debt, College Debt Analysis, College Debt Study, Kotlikoff Posted in: College Tuition, Student Loan Debt No Comments