Should I take out a loan?

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  • Reply 41 of 45
    progmacprogmac Posts: 1,850member
    i mean, if you want to make a ton of money and become a suit earning 150k/year and working 65 hours a week, go to harvard, and you'll make all the connections and garbage that warrant a really high paying first job, more than enough to pay off the loans.



    if work and becoming weatlhy will not be your top life priorities, then going to harvard does not make financial sense.



    i'd rather earn $40k a year working 35 hours a week than $100k a year working 50 hours a week; and then, you couldn't pay me $2,000,000 a year to work 70-80 + hours. but then, i'm weird like that.
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  • Reply 42 of 45
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Carol A

    Hi Splinemodel -



    Spiritually? In what way?




    Notice how I didn't say "go to Dartmouth or Harvard." Alternatively to how Princeton has generally bad grad programs because the focus is on the undergrads, Harvard has generally bad undergrad programs because the focus is on grads. Dartmouth doesn't have a grad program. Two of my cousins went there, and they seem quite pleased that they made the decision.



    As for a low end government job, I would hope that he's not interested in those. With an education like the one he's about to get, he can shoot much higher right from the start. . . but it helps to have a piece of paper from an ivy, even if it doesn't mean a better education. (but it usually does.)



    By spiritually, I meant that he'd be among people with the similar interest, and in some cases passion, for learning. That's the big ticket. The cost of an upper-end school is the price for rent among outstanding people.



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    i mean, if you want to make a ton of money and become a suit earning 150k/year and working 65 hours a week, go to harvard, and you'll make all the connections and garbage that warrant a really high paying first job, more than enough to pay off the loans.



    Spoken exactly like someone who has no idea. My friend Deb, who graduated last year from Princeton, goes by "Debt" because she's buried in it. But she's happy to be where she is, and after she spent a year at an internship she has a bunch of really interesting job offers on the table. . . So even though she's in debt, she skipped about 10 years (well, 9) of entry level jobs.



    Life is short. There's no reason to waste it as some middle-manager's bitch.
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  • Reply 43 of 45
    spcmsspcms Posts: 407member
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    Originally posted by Scott

    Does anyone in Belgium ever go outside the system or the country for education?



    I'm not sure what you mean by 'outside the system'. There are many exchange programs in place for studying a semester or a year abroad. Also (if you meet certain standards) there are many possibilities to obtain post-graduate degrees, including in the US (although that remains pretty expensive, by our standards, no matter what).
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  • Reply 44 of 45
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Where'd you all get the idea that only type-a business people go to Harvard?
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  • Reply 45 of 45
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
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    Originally posted by SpcMs

    I'm not sure what you mean by 'outside the system'. There are many exchange programs in place for studying a semester or a year abroad. Also (if you meet certain standards) there are many possibilities to obtain post-graduate degrees, including in the US (although that remains pretty expensive, by our standards, no matter what).



    There's no private schools that people pay for out of pocket? No one ever goes to another country for a degree that they just pay for?
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