25 years old and deep in debt

[Ed Anger]

I'm taking off my wig.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm throwing Ozzy's Ultimate Sin at you like a CD ninja star.  Lulz, Dweezil Zappa cameo!

[Ed Anger]

Ozzy sucks

[CountDeMoney]

Typical.  Shitgoat Snob.

[Ed Anger]

You'd gotten a better reaction calling me a Boston Snob. Since that band gives me explosive diarrhea.

[DontSayBanana]

I'm throwing Ozzy's Ultimate Sin at you like a CD ninja star.  Lulz, Dweezil Zappa cameo!

Good luck getting a copy, thanks to Phil Soussan.

[Syt]

David's aggressive expression? He has more the face of a guy thinking, "Well, fuck." Which makes sense when you go up against a giant.

[CountDeMoney]

You'd gotten a better reaction calling me a Boston Snob. Since that band gives me explosive diarrhea.

That's more than a feeling.

[Ed Anger]

 

[alfred russel]

Yes, he has a sling in his left hand which he is preparing to use to kill goliath.

no, no, i wasn't disagreeing that david holds a weapon. i was disagreeing with your point. the two are completely unlike. the reaction isn't solely because it's a male statue. wellesley isn't some shit state university the tumblr idiots attend

I don't think either is going to be mistaken as an actual sexual assailant. Yes the sleepwalking statue looks more realistic, can could theoretically be mistaken as a living person for a brief moment in time, and living people can theoretically commit sexual assault. I thought this potential was not so important, because he is rather obviously a statue, and with all the publicity I doubt there are many people on campus that aren't aware of the statue. Plus he gives no signs that he is about to assault anyone, and as a statue is incapable of approaching a woman.

What I was trying to express was that if we are going to see sexual violence in a statue, it would make as much sense to see it in David as the sleepwalking guy. Though personally I see it as close to zero in both cases.

My problem with the "sexual assault" theme is that this is a normal looking guy in his underwear apparently sleepwalking. If people are freaked out by the image of a normal looking guy in his underwear, I think they have issues.

[Valmy]

I've realized that I immediate judge people when they use "trigger" in this sort of way or if they say "cisgender".

I generally have a very negative reaction to this sort of jargon.  Like when Spicey said 'Cultural Marxism'.  Just take some time and thought to say what you mean.  Saying 'this is triggering' is not particularly thoughtful or helpful, especially for something this seemingly innocuous. 

[Ideologue]

Consider your privilege.

This thread needs more fat-shaming kickass Ide and less mangina tumblrsexual Ide.

What's the contradiction?  I just want the world to be a nicer place, a world with neither fear nor fatties.

Your use of tumblrchick shaming language is leading to flareups of manginitis, whose continued, unironic, use is one bad day away from turning you into a asexual demiromantic otherkin, resulting in a cum-spattered Rainbow Dash plushie as a worst case scenario. 

Euthanasia becomes the only kind thing at that point.

Okay.  Your paranoia is weird.

[Phillip V]

College Graduate First Person In Family To Waste $160,000

WILKES-BARRE, PA—Saying that his great grandparents could have never even dreamed of squandering such a fortune, recent college graduate Eric Singer told reporters Monday that he is the first person in his family to throw away $160,000. "This level of debt was just out of reach for my father and grandfather, which makes my wasting so much money all the more meaningful," said Singer, noting that his mother only flushed $12,000 down the toilet during her time in school. "It's an honor to be the first in my family to experience blowing hundreds of dollars on textbooks, or meeting with financial aid officers to fill out the paperwork locking me into a lifetime of crippling interest rates. I'm destroying my credit history in a way that just wasn't possible for them when they were my age." Singer added that he also hopes to be the first person in his neighborhood to rack up another $200,000 in tuition bills during law school.



http://www.theonion.com/articles/college-graduate-first-person-in-family-to-waste-1,35241/

[Ideologue]

MAH NARRATIVE

[CountDeMoney]

Study finds rising cost in not going to college — but students should still look for value
By Michelle Singletary, Published: February 14
washingtonpost.com

With the rising cost of college, people have been asking if it's worth the investment.

That might be the wrong question.

We know that many employers demand a college degree — any degree — as a requirement for someone to be considered for an interview. It's frustrating for laid-off workers without degrees to be ignored or undervalued despite their years of experience and skills. That's the economy we have, with more people than jobs available.

Still if you have to borrow to go to college, the real question is not about the degree but rather the debt. Since it will take years to pay off, is that really worth it?

Now the Pew Research Center has looked at the issue in a different light — the rising cost of not going to college.

And it would appear there's hard evidence that it is worth it to get your degree, although I would still caution that you have to be careful in how much you pay.

Pew found that young college graduates are outperforming their peers with less education by all sorts of measures — from poverty levels to annual income to the ability to become employed full time.

College graduates aged 25 to 32 — the so-called millennials — earn about $17,500 more annually than employed young adults with only a high school diploma or its equivalent, such as a General Educational Development certificate, according to Pew. The research center surveyed 2,002 adults and supplemented its analysis with economic data from the Census Bureau.

Pew also noted that the income gap was significantly smaller in previous generations. "In 1979 when the first wave of baby boomers were the same age that millennials are today, the typical high school graduate earned about three-quarters (77 percent) of what a college graduate made," its report said. "Today, millennials with only a high school diploma earn 62 percent of what the typical college graduate earns."

Poverty rates are higher for people with only a high school diploma or the equivalent — 22 percent compared with 6 percent of today's college-educated young adults. This is a huge difference when you consider that only 7 percent of baby boomers with just a high school diploma were living in poverty in 1979, when they were in their late 20s and early 30s.

Today's young adults are the best-educated generation in history and as a result are more likely to be paid more. Millennials with a bachelor's degree earn a median income of $45,500 compared with $28,000 for a high school graduate. They are also are significantly less likely to be unemployed than peers with a high school diploma.

Nonetheless, a degree doesn't guarantee you won't face economic hardships, Pew pointed out.

"To be sure, the Great Recession and painfully slow recovery have taken their toll on the millennial generation, including the college-educated," the authors of the report wrote. "Young college graduates are having more difficulty landing work than earlier cohorts. They are more likely to be unemployed and have to search longer for a job than earlier generations of young adults."

Pew asked the young adults whether they had major regrets while in college. In retrospect, people felt they should have prepared better for the type of job they wanted, studied harder, start their job search earlier or chosen a different major. The top regret: Half the college graduates surveyed felt that getting more work experience would have put them in a better position to enter their chosen career field.

I'm dismayed at the number of college students and graduates I talk to who tell me they failed to get even one internship related to the job they wanted while they were in school. My daughter is a freshman at the University of Maryland. My husband and I have set up several conditions she has to meet in exchange for us paying for her college education. One is that she has to get summer internships related to work in the field of education, which she hopes to make her career. We're pleased she's already lined up summer work at a camp, as she's done the last several summers.

Pew asked the college-educated folks if college was worth it. The overwhelming majority said yes. However, here's an interesting fact from the report. Graduates who didn't take out education loans were more likely than those who did to say that their degree has paid off (91 percent compared with 79 percent).

So college does pay off for a lot of people. But don't confuse that with college at any cost. You need to be moneywise about what you can afford and get some work experience while you are still in school.