Back to school :D

[Valiere]

No AC?! Where the hell do you live??

[A Forgotten Legend]

Pennsylvania.  And it sucks.  I'm in the only dorm on campus without it.  You walk outside and it gets cooler.

[MissingName]

Yay!  We've been getting so much rain lately, the science center roof is leaking in many places.

And our food is surprisingly good.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Lucas, that does make me feel better, but I feel bad for you.

Missing Name.  I had to march out if all the rain we've been getting.  There is a girl in my section that is so sick her speech has been impaired.  (Her throat got all swollen up and she is still at band camp everyday.)

[A Forgotten Legend]

Ouch.  I'm sorry still.

Well, unless you have a cool family, then not so much.  I wanted to go to a school more than 3 hours away to get away from mine... that didn't work so I'm only an hour away.

[Valiere]

Living far away ain't all its cracked up to be. There's just something about being able to dump your dirty laundry in a washer for free.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Living far away ain't all its cracked up to be. There's just something about being able to dump your dirty laundry in a washer for free.

I'd rather pay for that than be at home with the it I call a sister.

[Valiere]

What are you talking about? Are you saying that you actually have to wash your clothes? Whats wrong with wearing them until they rot? Sounds much cheaper if you ask me.

There's a happy medium. Mine is two and a half weeks.

[drenrin2120]

I head back to school this tuesday. I'm not really ready. So if I don't post much, like I haven't been posting much as it is, then you know why.

This seems the appropriate thread for it, so: when does everyone head back to school?

[A Forgotten Legend]

Well, classes started last Monday for me, but I've been here since the 19th.

[drenrin2120]

Wait, for some reason I thought you were an englishmen, where do you live?

[Shady Ultima]

Fully tax-paid higher education:
+ Pretty much everyone is encouraged to go and become better educated
- Possibly a lower quality education due to low-paid professors

VS

Partial or full tuition with Public/Private US Colleges:
- You have to pay an arm and a leg to get in and show them you're capable
+ You learn a lot of interesting stuff from professors paid heartily to teach or research

I know this is kinda far behind where we are in this topic now, but I'd like to point out that it's not always like that. America's colleges are well respected, yes, BUT they are not the best in the world. The best ones in the world (currently) are in Tokyo, which are free.

It's a capitalist fallacy that you are stating that you get what you pay for. It doesn't always work that way. Canada's health care is free (paid by taxes) and America's is not. Which country has the better medical facilities? According to studies, Canada, by a long shot.

I'd also like to point out that Socialism and Communism are not the same thing.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Wait, for some reason I thought you were an englishmen, where do you live?

He lives in Brazil... o.o

Bahaha.  Wow.


Thanks to Federal Student aid and some lovely scholarships, I'm not paying a leg.  Maybe a hand.

[Cerebus]

Here it's free, but we're stuck with the lags. It isn't rare to wait hours in line because 75 person who caught a cold judged necessary to abuse the free health care to see a doctor and waste people who really need to see one's time. I'm one of them 75.
I kid, I kid.

However, medicine or whatever can cost a lot, some times. But then, insurances pay it back. You still need the funds, though. That, or you only pay a small portion of it. Or, some times, you don't pay a single cent. It all depends on the insurance your job or whatever gives you.

As for dental care... they separated from the rest. Having a single tooth removed, if you're very not-lucky, can cost over 400$. If you're lucky, about 80$. Screw you dentists!

Also, I'm back to school as well. Adult school, though. Sucks. A lot. Working at your own rhythm isn't as great as it sounded.