What grinds your gears?

[Huzer]

Dang. If I had it to do over, I'd go to college in-state... take care of your first two years at community college, transfer to one of the many great universities we have here for your degree, then ask your grandpappy for a healthy graduation pre$ent. Boom. You just saved your parents/grandparents a crap-ton of money and you made out like a bandit in the end.

If it were possible to agree with you more, I would. 100% the truth, here.

[geo2maz]

what grinds my gears: when i'm 'that guy'.

(completely unrelated to previous posts)

[Learjet45]

Dang. If I had it to do over, I'd go to college in-state... take care of your first two years at community college, transfer to one of the many great universities we have here for your degree, then ask your grandpappy for a healthy graduation pre$ent. Boom. You just saved your parents/grandparents a crap-ton of money and you made out like a bandit in the end.

To each his own.
My best in state choice for my degree would be CU Boulder, and Boulder is entirely too large of a school for me. And if I had taken a route like that, I'd probably actually graduate with more debt than I will graduating from RPI. They weren't very generous with financial aid for my sister that had a better high school transcript than I did. Although her schooling costs around $15,000/year out of pocket, it was her cheapest option and also I believe the best school she got in to.
Although I have around $8,000/year in federal loans, I only have 3 semesters of classes left. I can graduate as early as December 2014, although I'll likely take a semester off to do a co-op and graduate May 2015 instead. I should make more than enough to pay off all my loans and still graduate a year ahead of everyone else in my class. Not to mention, I'll have only been in school for 5 semesters so what would have been over $110,000 for my grandpa will be about half that, and I'll only have about $20,000 in loans instead of $40k+. Not to mention, paying my college tuition has no affect on my grandpa's lifestyle of financial stability. He personally preferred I attend a school like RPI over Boulder given the immense number of opportunities I am presented by going there.
I have no regrets about my decision to go to RPI. Not to mention, average starting salary of an RPI graduate is I believe $10,000 higher than that of CU Boulder graduates. And RPI also has a much better return on investment rating.

[erod550]

Kids who believe that their parents have any responsibility whatsoever to pay for their college education. Be thankful that you're getting anything, don't come on a message board and put your parents down because they're not paying for everything. I paid entirely for my own college education and I did not expect my parents (or grandparents) to pay for any of it.

[tsx_guy]

what grinds my gears: when i'm 'that guy'.

(completely unrelated to previous posts)

you too? you are such a ...

[Learjet45]

Kids who believe that their parents have any responsibility whatsoever to pay for their college education. Be thankful that you're getting anything, don't come on a message board and put your parents down because they're not paying for everything. I paid entirely for my own college education and I did not expect my parents (or grandparents) to pay for any of it.

Believe it or not, I was actually fully prepared to take out private loans to pay for the rest of my college education (which is more than I can say for my sister anyways). My grandpa would actually agree with you. He's fairly conservative and is by no means an opponent of welfare. Family is the most important thing to him though.

[Andyscums]

Subaru is paying for my education.... BOOM

That DOESN'T grind my gears

[Number2]

To each his own.
My best in state choice for my degree would be CU Boulder, and Boulder is entirely too large of a school for me. And if I had taken a route like that, I'd probably actually graduate with more debt than I will graduating from RPI. They weren't very generous with financial aid for my sister that had a better high school transcript than I did. Although her schooling costs around $15,000/year out of pocket, it was her cheapest option and also I believe the best school she got in to.
Although I have around $8,000/year in federal loans, I only have 3 semesters of classes left. I can graduate as early as December 2014, although I'll likely take a semester off to do a co-op and graduate May 2015 instead. I should make more than enough to pay off all my loans and still graduate a year ahead of everyone else in my class. Not to mention, I'll have only been in school for 5 semesters so what would have been over $110,000 for my grandpa will be about half that, and I'll only have about $20,000 in loans instead of $40k+. Not to mention, paying my college tuition has no affect on my grandpa's lifestyle of financial stability. He personally preferred I attend a school like RPI over Boulder given the immense number of opportunities I am presented by going there.
I have no regrets about my decision to go to RPI. Not to mention, average starting salary of an RPI graduate is I believe $10,000 higher than that of CU Boulder graduates. And RPI also has a much better return on investment rating.

I went to CU Boulder on my own dime, and I would say I do better than average financially. Ultimately, what it comes down to is this: You will get out what you put in, meaning the level of time, studies and effort. Boulder, like many other universities, has a wide range of people; From really dumb kids who just want to party, get their diploma and be on their way, to really smart people that send satellites into space! lol.

[coloskydiver]

I went to CU Boulder on my own dime, and I would say I do better than average financially. Ultimately, what it comes down to is this: You will get out what you put in, meaning the level of time, studies and effort. Boulder, like many other universities, has a wide range of people; From really dumb kids who just want to party, get their diploma and be on their way, to really smart people that send satellites into space! lol.

Does this mean you are the latter?

[Learjet45]

I went to CU Boulder on my own dime, and I would say I do better than average financially. Ultimately, what it comes down to is this: You will get out what you put in, meaning the level of time, studies and effort. Boulder, like many other universities, has a wide range of people; From really dumb kids who just want to party, get their diploma and be on their way, to really smart people that send satellites into space! lol.

RPI also has a better FSAE team
I've visited Boulder on a handful of occasions before because I do have a couple friends that go there. It's just way too big for me. I can handle around 10,000 students. The school with the largest student body I visited was RIT and it was around 10,000 and that was verging on too big for my preferences. And I'll stick to my military jets thank you very much Planes > Spaceships.

[Number2]

Does this mean you are the latter?

No, I wish!

[Number2]

Back on topic though:

Living in an apartment next to a bi-polar mother of two, who yells at her kids incessantly at 8:00am on a Sunday morning. Why? Because they like to play with toys and forget to put them in their toy chest. Icarumba.

[mOOsE]

Owning an Official Google Nexus 4 phone, but still not able to play certain games because of stupid Android fragmentation.

[erod550]

I finally caved and got an iPad. Now I can play all teh gaems, regardless of platform (phone is a Samsung GS3). Mwahahahaha.

[Huzer]

The dumbass zombie fad, if it can be called a fad.