Category Archives: Higher Education

How to Make the Most of Your Higher Education – Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo)

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  • Don’t get an AA degree anywhere but at a super cheap community college. Go to a local community college, live at home, and get a part time job.
  • Don’t take out anymore than $15,000 in loans.
  • Try your damnest to get done in four years.
  • Don’t choose a school based on the college atmosphere.
  • Never get a Masters Degree in anything, except if it is guarenteed to increase your salary.
  • Never get a PhD in anything.
  • Never get any degree in a profession that doesn’t require a degree. (You don’t need an AA degree in party planning, for example.)
  • I would like to tell people to avoid schools where the professors don’t actually teach any courses, but it’s hard to find positive examples anymore.

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How to Make the Most of Your Higher Education – The Daily Beast.

Should College Students be Getting Their XXX Degrees? – Ashley Herzog

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Dear Daughters of Mine,

If this is what awaits you, you are not going to college.

“Students in Wesleyan’s course “Pornography: The Writing of Prostitutes” are actually required to produce a piece of pornography in order to pass. Other courses require students to photograph their genitals or write out their sexual fantasies in explicit detail.”

Should College Students be Getting Their XXX Degrees? – Ashley Herzog – [page].

Go South Dakota! SDSM&T beats Harvard in grad pay

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h/t http://www.drudgereport.com

“Harvard University’s graduates are earning less than those from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology after a decade-long commodity bull market created shortages of workers as well as minerals.”

Harvard Losing Out to South Dakota in Graduate Pay: Commodities – Bloomberg.

The Economics Of Student Aid. Gov’t Always Makes Things More Expensive

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Daniel Doherty

“Part of the reason [government intervention] has led to an increase in tuition and fees is because universities have zero incentive to lower costs,” she said. “They’ll spend as much money as they take in. And so there’s been no outward pressure on universities; they don’t have to worry about their bottom line because they know students can just go back, request more federal financial aid, [request] more federal subsidies, and they’ll have what they need to pay these increases in tuition.”

via Is a College Education a Prerequisite for Personal Economic Success? – Daniel Doherty – [page].

Mike Adams’ – Second Amendment Diversity Plan

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“The crime problem on our campus is, of course, exacerbated by our university’s affirmative action policy. Under our policy, we grant preferential treatment to minority applicants. But we only grant that preferential treatment to members of minority groups that are, on average, less educated and poorer than whites (e.g., blacks and Hispanics). The problem is that those groups that are less educated and poorer also exhibit higher criminal involvement than whites.”

via My New Second Amendment Diversity Plan – Mike Adams – [page].