My daughter got her general studies completed @ UIC, transferred to Valpo for her Bachelors and is now @ DePaul for her Masters of Science in Marketing.

Four major moves in five years. Not sure if the colleges or U Haul have more of my money?!?

Seriously, we are very proud of her and she has an amazing future ahead. Money well spent.

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Cant wait to simultaneously send off a check to rogue jrs college while depositing my social security check. #shouldastartedsooner

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Nice, Spaulding!

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This fall starts the graduate school tuition payments for me. Couple more years and all three will be in College at the same time. If my wife is lucky enough, she'll be the rich, happy widow sending checks from the beach...

Congrats Reader


Tuition rates are scary. I mean if I save 100k by the time my daughter is 18, that might mostly cover ISU

I saw those grades, maybe you better start saving for the Ivy League.

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Haha ....already selling her on caddying just for the scholarship

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Plus he can spin the hell out of a curveball and that plays at every level. You're going to have to let me know when that MC game gets rescheduled.

Sure, it's gonna bounce but at least you sent it off.

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Large endowments at many Ivy League schools.

A good friend of mine dropped $40 K at Dartmouth. For four full years.

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One of my best friends has 2 daughters. He was a pig in college. Fucked anything he could. Really had a scorecard, he went to the bottom of the barrel, if it moved, he banged it.

Now he justs dreads the thought of his girls going to college. One girl in 13 and one is 11. Now, if I go out wth him for a few beers or after a Cubs game and he says 21 year old girls drunk trying to walk home, his life flashes before his eyes. I have seen him now help girls get a cab and give the guy $20 to take her home. While it is nice, it is so damn funny seeing him trying to fight the Karma ghost that follows him around.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Congrats & condolences! You wont believe some of the crap you will see on the bursar statement. Its unreal. Mrs. Scorehead & I have been paying college tuition to a few fine Illinois institutions for our 3 kids for about 10 years. We will make our last bank transfer next Month as my youngest graduates in May. We told our kids that shortly after we return from the grad ceremony & dinner, my Wife & I are taking a long trip somewhere warm. Hopefully your Son is studying something that he loves. I always told my kids that if you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. Don't just choose a degree based on earning potential...choose a degree based on what you are really interested in.
Good luck to your Son & you & your Wife!

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I second that

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17 year old girl is driving us all crazy. I look forward to her going!

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My son created a time line of his life for school with pictures attached. That really made me stop for a while.

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And men have lost their reason.

Oh the joys of kids, enjoy T-bone.

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Just make sure he learns the one lesson I learned the hard way when visiting friends at Mizzou one weekend back in 1989.....just cause a fake ID works at the bars doesn't mean its going to work at a liquor store.


But, on a related note, the booking procedure at Columbia police headquarters is so fast and seamless that its very possible to make it back to the bars well before closing time.

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I don't remember anybody getting arrested in college for a fake ID. They get taken away, sure, get kicked out, but not arrested just for that.
We need the rest of the story.


BTW, RR, I'm sure this will not happen to your kid.

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From today's WSJ opinion section. Bolded part was interesting to me.




Education Does Reduce Inequality
By Dan Greenstein and Jamie Merisotis
610 words
10 April 2015
The Wall Street Journal
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Copyright © 2015, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

In recent months some of the leading economic minds in the country have declared that when it comes to explaining rising inequality, education doesn't matter. Larry Summers, former Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard, said at the National Press Club in February that it's an "evasion" to suggest education and training as a solution to inequality.

"The core problem is that there aren't enough jobs," Mr. Summers said. "If you help some people, you could help them get the jobs, but then someone else won't get the jobs." Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, piled on a few days later: "Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power."

We could use stronger rhetoric, but let's say it this way: nonsense. Education remains the chief American institution that promotes economic and social mobility for poor and disadvantaged citizens. It's not an evasion; it's the direct answer to the question of what the nation needs to improve its talent pool and improve economic opportunity and social equality.

Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz find that the growing difference in the earnings of college graduates and high-school graduates explains between 60% and 70% of the rise in wage inequality between 1980 and 2005.

MIT economist David Autor has an instructive thought experiment: The increase in wages for the top 1% between 1980 and 2005, if divided among the bottom 99%, would provide each household about $7,000 in additional income. But the wage gains of college graduates over the same period, divided among high-school graduates, would provide each household with $28,000 of additional income.

The premium attached to a college education -- the difference in wages between those with degrees and those with high-school diplomas -- increased even as the market was flooded with university graduates. In 1980 only 16 million Americans, or 21% of those in their prime working years (ages 23 to 54), held a bachelor's degree or higher; by 2013, that figure was 38 million, or 37%. When supply increases, economists expect the price to fall. But instead the college-wage premium grew from 33% to 62% between 1980 and 2013. For millions of Americans, especially the children of poor and minority families, getting more education is the best advice. Schooling is the best pathway to a sustaining career and wage.

The idea that education is the bridge to economic opportunity and social mobility is gospel in American public discourse for a reason. It balances our values of equal opportunity and individual responsibility. The answer is not in dismissing education, but making it more equitable. American education has become complicit in the intergenerational reproduction of racial and class privilege. Higher education mimics and magnifies the racial and class inequalities it inherits from the K-12 system and projects those inequalities into the labor market.

Critics are right that a college degree or certificate is not enough to solve all economic problems or create a fair and just social contract. But education is the clearest and best way to develop talent and build the skills so important to our country's economic and social well-being. Naysayers go too far when they threaten the only common ground that remains in the American political dialogue. Attacking education in an attempt to provide legitimacy to more controversial reforms will only divide us further.

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Mr. Greenstein leads work on postsecondary education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr. Merisotis is president of Lumina Foundation.

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geezus, i was never even talked to about going to college. my parents were terrified that i would want to. they didnt want to spend a dollar on it for any of us kids. if i wanted to go to college i would have had to go into 50k in debt and find a way to pay my expenses (work) while going to school. FUCK THAT. im not stupid.

now my resume has no 4 year degree on it, but it does have 15 years of real experience and im only 32. any major corporation that wont look at me because i dont have a 4 year degree, i tell them that is fine, there are plenty of college grads that cant produce anything that would love to work here.

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nothing he can really do at this point. by 11 and 13 with girls, youre done training them. theyre not going to listen to you anymore. if you are worried about their decisions you should have made sure the right ones are in their head years ago.

with boys its a little different. you can threaten them with violence up until about 18 or so. but after that you can expect to not know them for the next 10 years or so...

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Ike, well your avatar is interesting and somewhat ironic given your concerns over employability.

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this isnt facebook or twitter

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sorry, forgot about this thread till today.

Freshman year when I was at Oklahoma I went to Mizzou for a weekend to visit a couple friends at their frat house. They hooked me up with an ID from a brother of theirs. Only problem was the guy in the ID was 6'4 with blond hair. They said no problem, it will still work at the bars. And it did. The next day my one friend was staying at the house to help work on some stupid float for some parade. Me and another friend decided to steal his car and go drinking. After a couple hours of that we decided we should bring our friend a gift for stealing his car so we went to the liquor store and I tried to buy a bottle of something. The people took one look at the ID and were like aer you kidding me and called the cops. Got arrested, but was back on the streets in an hour.

Arrest cost me $100 and now I can say I've been arrested in 3 states bordering the Mississippi River. I'm like an old school River man, traveling up and down the Mississip stirring up trouble and getting arrested. I'm Mark Twain without the wit.

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That's not true, and some of it is just sad.

what parts? the beating your kid or giving up on your daughter at 11?

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You dont really have kids, do you?

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

honestly not a single one to my knowledge

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