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Originally posted by squirrelly I just applied to a private uni. It's going to multiply my costs 8 times but I'm just so pissed off I don't even want to step foot on that stupid fucking campus ever again. The private uni is willing to help me with financial aid right away and put me in classes in August where the old school told me I'd have to pay out of pocket my first year back. take that you sons of bitches!

Do what you have to do!

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Originally posted by Zild That happened to me too. I was going to get a two semesters of Fs dropped through a medical withdraw, but it would have meant I would have fucked up my financial aid. So I took my lumps and took the GPA hit.

luckily i was attending the cc when i applied for the medical withdraw, so it didn't affect my financial aid. I just got WP (withdraw pass) in all the classes I was taking (5).

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Originally posted by squirrelly I just applied to a private uni. It's going to multiply my costs 8 times but I'm just so pissed off I don't even want to step foot on that stupid fucking campus ever again. The private uni is willing to help me with financial aid right away and put me in classes in August where the old school told me I'd have to pay out of pocket my first year back. take that you sons of bitches!

Sounds like you're getting the better deal. Private schools tend to offer better programs than public schools anyway.

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I just said fuck it and took the Fs. I think like 25 hours worth. Screw it though I'm still passing and I'm still going to graduate. I wish I could have afforded to have paid for it out of my pocket, but I'll live.

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It's quite frustrating as an employer as well because so many of the engineers we hire have graduate degrees from prestigious institutions, but they have no real ability to independently reason beyond and build upon what they have learned at school - so they quickly prove inadequate on the job. In terms of separating a good candidate from a bad candidate, education is probably the criterion I find least useful, mainly because of the failings of the universities themselves.

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Originally posted by squirrelly luckily i was attending the cc when i applied for the medical withdraw, so it didn't affect my financial aid. I just got WP (withdraw pass) in all the classes I was taking (5).

Yeah... it sucks right now, but i am trying to fix it.

it's just horrible that you need to work twice as hard because something happened.
it's not like i was flipping skipping classes to have orgies. I was stuck at home in a ridiculous amount of pain, with no painkillers because the school insurance doesn't cover pills. shoot me.

I am glad that it sounds like it is going to work out!
and it's true that private colleges have more flexibility with what they can offer.

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Originally posted by Arbiter It's quite frustrating as an employer as well because so many of the engineers we hire have graduate degrees from prestigious institutions, but they have no real ability to independently reason beyond and build upon what they have learned at school - so they quickly prove inadequate on the job. In terms of separating a good candidate from a bad candidate, education is probably the criterion I find least useful, mainly because of the failings of the universities themselves.

some kid came into our work with a degree and he knew NOTHING about how our business works. I was thinking "wtf seriously? this kid is a fucking moron."

people who work hard and have been with the company for years > people who schmutzed their way through college and have a degree

for promotions I think.

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Originally posted by Arbiter It's quite frustrating as an employer as well because so many of the engineers we hire have graduate degrees from prestigious institutions, but they have no real ability to independently reason beyond and build upon what they have learned at school - so they quickly prove inadequate on the job. In terms of separating a good candidate from a bad candidate, education is probably the criterion I find least useful, mainly because of the failings of the universities themselves.

Except for the fact that without a frikken piece of paper that says i am cool... i can't even get an interview for an engineering job.
that's why i am trying to do the two AA degrees with Comp Sci + Comp Eng. At least that way i will have two mini-degrees while i work on the Bach. Maybe i could intern or hold someone's coffee cup.

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My professors say they always have problems with the engineering students cheating, so I can imagine.

The biology majors are pretty bad as well.

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my man graduated with an electrical engineering degree. his job is paying for him to get his masters.

smartest boy I have ever known.

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Originally posted by squirrelly my man graduated with an electrical engineering degree. his job is paying for him to get his masters. smartest boy I have ever known.

yeah, my brother just finished his Civil Engineering degree.
he got the frikken air force to pay for it.

now he gets to travel around the country for a couple years with the AF paying for everything.

stupid butthead who did his homework!! grrr... showing me up!

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