Santa didn't get me a Canon 5d : /

[thierry]

I am a college student working towards my bachelors in Construction Engineering at Purdue University. I work 40 hours a week flipping burgers. I pay rent, bills, gas, cellphone, and pay for my college tuition in cash every semester including books. I am 100% debt free, I do not receive grants or scholarships. I live on pennies. I would never put a DONATE button on my website.

bull sh!t! you cannot work 8 hours/day *and* attend school and get grades worth having. Maybe if you were taking one class/semester or something. But honestly, I think this is total BS.

Dude you obviously have no idea about college.. There are thousands upon thousands of students who do the exact same... I work Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 7-3. I go to school tuesday and thursday 11-9:30 and monday and wednesday 4-6:45. I take 12 credit hours. This past semester I got a 3.5 GPA and a cummilative 3.21 throughout my 2 1/2 years so far. I got An A in Construction Strengths and Materials, and Plans & Specs. And I got a B in Statics, and Surveying.

 

[jonathanmphotography]

Well thank you all very much!

 

[thierry]

Oh and for when I get overloaded at school, yes I have called off before.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

I am a college student working towards my bachelors in Construction Engineering at Purdue University. I work 40 hours a week flipping burgers. I pay rent, bills, gas, cellphone, and pay for my college tuition in cash every semester including books. I am 100% debt free, I do not receive grants or scholarships. I live on pennies. I would never put a DONATE button on my website. It is unprofessional, tacky, and cheap. It downgrades your entire portfolio and work. Ken Rockwell is a master at this.

6 hours? Look at some Asian working. It's kinda crazy, they work for so less and for so long.

 

[thierry]

I am a college student working towards my bachelors in Construction Engineering at Purdue University. I work 40 hours a week flipping burgers. I pay rent, bills, gas, cellphone, and pay for my college tuition in cash every semester including books. I am 100% debt free, I do not receive grants or scholarships. I live on pennies. I would never put a DONATE button on my website. It is unprofessional, tacky, and cheap. It downgrades your entire portfolio and work. Ken Rockwell is a master at this.

6 hours? Look at some Asian working. It's kinda crazy, they work for so less and for so long.

Well it is a good thing we are talking about America.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

I am a college student working towards my bachelors in Construction Engineering at Purdue University. I work 40 hours a week flipping burgers. I pay rent, bills, gas, cellphone, and pay for my college tuition in cash every semester including books. I am 100% debt free, I do not receive grants or scholarships. I live on pennies. I would never put a DONATE button on my website. It is unprofessional, tacky, and cheap. It downgrades your entire portfolio and work. Ken Rockwell is a master at this.

6 hours? Look at some Asian working. It's kinda crazy, they work for so less and for so long.

Well it is a good thing we are talking about America.

In China, flipping burgers 40 hours a week wouldn't bring food to the table.

 

[thierry]

6 hours? Look at some Asian working. It's kinda crazy, they work for so less and for so long.

Well it is a good thing we are talking about America.

In China, flipping burgers 40 hours a week wouldn't bring food to the table.

Okay? Like I said, we are talking about America... You know... The United States of America... Not China.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

Well it is a good thing we are talking about America.

In China, flipping burgers 40 hours a week wouldn't bring food to the table.

Okay? Like I said, we are talking about America... You know... The United States of America... Not China.

I know I know, I should stop talking about China. lol.

 

[usayit]

<< Worked, studied, graduated all debt free. Bought a house right out of college.

Its hard but possible. It was especially hard for me as I wasn't what you would call "college material".


I also helped some younger coworkers of mine in their studies by picking up their slack at work when they had exams. I knew what it was like so I felt bad for them. I worked the "student" night shift; Friday -> Sunday 12 hours per day with some of those college students. This freed up most of the week for them to focus on studies. The only repayment I asked was that they get the F out when they graduate and don't forget to do the same for some other student.


It is possible...




Its not working hard and studying I have a problem with... its the rising cost and degrading quality of education but that's an entirely different discussion.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Purdue got voted one of the douchyist universities in America. Now I see why.

 

[unpopular]

I am a college student working towards my bachelors in Construction Engineering at Purdue University. I work 40 hours a week flipping burgers. I pay rent, bills, gas, cellphone, and pay for my college tuition in cash every semester including books. I am 100% debt free, I do not receive grants or scholarships. I live on pennies. I would never put a DONATE button on my website. It is unprofessional, tacky, and cheap. It downgrades your entire portfolio and work. Ken Rockwell is a master at this.

6 hours? Look at some Asian working. It's kinda crazy, they work for so less and for so long.

Well it is a good thing we are talking about America.

Why do you capitalists give this line? it's the same every single time:

"I am a college student attending [insert prestigious school here] studying to become [insert high paying profession here] I works 40 hours a week [insert some menial job which does not require a college degree and cannot possibly pay tuition]. I pay [all my expenses, including rent] and pay for tuition in cash. I am 100% debt free (that one is essential for some reason), and I do not receive grants or scholarships. blah blah blah."

It's complete baloney. You'd have to be making $15/hour and living in a $350/month apartment to make this work, or be going to school for 8 years to get a measly bachelor's degree.

Oh. and trust me, need-only based private scholarships are pretty much non-existant. Maybe if you payed attention in HS you wouldn't have to flip as many burgers now.

 

[unpopular]

Its not working hard and studying I have a problem with... its the rising cost and degrading quality of education but that's an entirely different discussion.

It's not possible when in-state tuition is $19k/year, even at $15/hour - an outrageous pay rate - this would be 65% of yearly income. With food, shelter, transportation and communications it's just not possible. With 40 hours/week going to work would leave maybe 30/week left for school.

MAYBE if it was part time.

 

[EchoingWhisper]

It is sad to see how many hours the people in poorer countries need to work, but think of it, they are slowly grabbing our money little by little.

 

[DiskoJoe]

If he was smart he would take out the fixed interest loans that they are giving away at a 2% interest rate.

 

[usayit]

It's complete baloney. You'd have to be making $15/hour and living in a $350/month apartment to make this work, or be going to school for 8 years to get a measly bachelor's degree.

In my case..

Texas A&M University. Computer Engineering
Student Engineer for Hewlett Packard (part of the year).
Computer Help Desk (part of the year)
Bowling Alley (part of the year)
Lived in the cheapest dorm for my entire time
Ate campus food.
Fixed and maintained my own car in the parking lot
It took me 6 years because HP was located in Dallas while TAMU was in College Station.
I didn't have a cell phone. My parents were nice enough to gift me a laptop.

So its not Baloney. Its being resourceful.