Just checked out the UGA Campus master plan

I'm going to pretend that you and I are smoking the same thing.

Boo student debt.

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Boo student debt.

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SOunds to me like the return on your investment is not going so well.

If so....then, why are you cheering on the expansion of UGA's campus?

Seems kind of backwards to me.

Here you are paying interest on the money you borrowed.......while they are simultaneously spending it to make room for more debt-slaves.

Am I wrong? (i hope i'm not coming across disrespectful. i'm being sincere)

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He didn't go to UGA, he went to GCSU.

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Irrelevant.

The topic here is DEBT. GCSU does not create the level of student loan debt that UGA does, but debt is debt.

Gatorhater9, Dig down deep....... do you really not hear alarm bells going off somewhere deep down in your gut, when you look closely at a system like this?........ where institutions that promise to give people an advantage.......are INSTEAD saddling them with debt?

I think that debt youre talking about has been affecting college students for what 3-4 decades? Usually, one can overcome the debt once they get that steady job a college degree use to be able to get you, but with the job market what it is, the debt becomes a bigger story. Because now you've got 50,000 dollars to pay back and you youre making 9 bucks/hr.....thats what fricks people up....not college.

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I graduated from UGA with zero dollars of debt.

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I just have grad school debt to deal with. The rest was staved off via busting my arse to keep HOPE for four years and getting really lucky that I figured out early on what I was good at and what I wanted to do. I would say the latter half of the equation is one of the big reasons folks are getting fricked so bad by student debt: HOPE is nice, but it isn't patient for 6 years while you sort your life out and figure out what it is you want out of college.

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then, why are you cheering on the expansion of UGA's campus?

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Because once upon a time - before I realized that I am just the worst at math - I really wanted to get into architecture and city planning. So it has always been a sort of interest of mine the way Athens and the UGA campus have evolved since I was a little kid. Plus, I'm likely moving to Athens (finally; stayed at GCSU because it offered the best situation for me, but I'd be damned if I said I didn't think about transferring for the hell of it) post-grad. So, now, I kind of have a personal stake in how my landscape is going to be changing.

I can't speak for Jefferson - nor would I intend to.

However, I see where he's coming from in that it seems odd people would cheer a multi-million dollar expansion of the college at the same time when more and more kids are having to go into incredibly high levels of debt just to go to college. How about foregoing a few fountains in lieu of a tuition reduction?

Back in the early 90's 9 mths of tuition was slightly less than $2,000 and a decent salary out of a 4 yr UGA business program was about $28,000/yr. Tuition has gone up 5 times that....has the starting salary kept pace?

Also, you could almost pay your own way through college with a minimal amount of help. Now, you need either a student loan (govt.) or a hope scholarship (govt.) to afford to go to UGA - unless your folks are doing pretty well. Do we really want a system where the govt. controls who does or doesn't get to attend a major college?

It sure does seem to me that the open money spigot of low interest rates, endless credit and lotto money has driven the cost of college up to the point where normal kids with lower middle class parents who don't want to saddle themselves with $100K of debt can't pay the estimated $20K/yr to even go.

Say whaaa??

I'm personally surprised that more of the Occupy types aren't protesting having to pay $20K/yr to get a degree....but I guess it's because they don't realize they have to pay those loans back until they're out of college. Of course nobody's forced to sign on the dotted line, but in a society that's been dumbed down, can't understand how compounding interest works and has been taught that a 0% introductory rate is AWESOME...who's surprised?

By the way, want to know who owns that $1T of student loan debt that will probably never be repaid? You do.

1) That is alot of space for like 2,000 more students in that number of years. That is like 3,100 sq ft of space per student!

2) Amazing how all that construction started just after HOPE was introduced and not shite was built the 10 years before that.