[Magdalen] Tuition

[Clarissa Canning]

    I am one of those failures in life like someone said .    I remember we
got to colleges in Michigan on Grants plus scholarship.  I always had ok
grades but anxiety and depression followed me around and failed me more .
When moving to Canada I found distance learning and got my  Bth .  what
good it did me is ???   Living in one salary most of time keeps us in debt
. I  paid for that Ed .  Then got stupider when trying to become more
independent and got sucked by recruiters disappointed by church people who
are selfish .  Went back to school backasswards for an ass. Degree I can’t
pay off ever ! The only good thing is to remember the millions of other
stupid people who do the same.  the credits don’t transfer to Canada my
spouse was sure our new life would be in that state .  The we lost it all .
The world  and church want people with lots of letters by their names .
Wow it’s fun watching people fix up their homes .  Thank god for rectories
but the less you make the more taxes they take no break evens.  Small towns
are now only catering to wealthy seniors for apts or condos .  But after
Covid would rather not go to city .   I just needed to rant out the pain .
   Maybe Good get us through in mysterious ways .  Heaven will be a relief
.  I just go on for my kids.  My daughter gets it she a poor artist and
does not know how she going to pay off her loans either .   working at
beating this bad mood and pretend it is all good .  Thanks for listening .
  Through God all things are possible .


On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 1:15 PM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mike, I remember saving money at Michigan State by forgoing the dorm's meal
> plan and subsisting on mac & cheese, generic chicken franks, and PB&J as
> well. I think I gradually added trips to fast-food joints, so not as much
> was saved as I had planned on.
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:50 PM Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net
> >
> wrote:
>
> > My tuition at the University of Chicago in the mid-fifties was $300 a
> > quarter.  The University decided first whether to admit you and then
> helped
> > you finance it with loans and jobs.  I think that the Bursar knew every
> > college student by their first name.
> >
> > Even so, I lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Kraft dinner.
> >
> > Kids can't do that these days, alas.
> >
> >
> > Mike Mahoney
> > Stoneledge
> > 446 Long Mountain Road
> > Washington, VA 22747
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:08 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I'm feeling really old to hear my neighbors discuss the cost of sending
> > > their kids tocollege.  For example, the neighbor boy who attends the
> > Notre
> > > Dame branch locally(Kings, Wilkes-Barre) is paying $20,000 per year..
> > > State colleges for residentsare a bit less, but still hefty.  If memory
> > > serves me, my freshman year at UW-Madison for my resident status was$89
> > per
> > > semester ('55 - '56)..  By the time I got my bachelor's degree four
> years
> > > later, thecost had increased to $225 oer semester.  Room and board for
> a
> > > year in theWisconsin dormitories was $680 in 1955 - 1956 and $850  my
> > > undergraduate senior year.  Then UW Medical School was $1,200 per
> > senester,
> > > but it fell to $600 medical schoolsenior year semester because they
> paid
> > us
> > > for drawing all the bloods at UW Medical Center.  I had a good summer
> job
> > > with the Wisconsin Highway Department, and paid for mostof the expense
> of
> > > tuition plus room and board.  I had no student debt.  This is all
> ancient
> > > history.  These current kids will have all this expense and NO
> > > FOOTBALL.  David Strang.
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>