Subsidized Post-Secondary Education and Extended Adolescence

[uppi]

How can a university not have housing? Where do students live?

The same places where normal people live. And they have to rent those places exactly like normal people. Organizing a place to live, finding roommates yourself and paying for it yourself does help people growing out of adolescence. So if the goal is to curb the time in adolescence, abolishing dorms would be a large step towards that.

 

[downtown]

The same places where normal people live. And they have to rent those places exactly like normal people. Organizing a place to live, finding roommates yourself and paying for it yourself does help people growing out of adolescence. So if the goal is to curb the time in adolescence, abolishing dorms would be a large step towards that.

It's a nice thought, but in many US cities, it isn't practical, as the surrounding city wouldn't have nearly enough housing to absorb the students.

I know this happens, but I also don't think it's very common for US college students to live in dorms for more than 2 years, unless perhaps they live in a city like NYC where the cost of an apartment is far more than they might pay in a dorm.

 

[civ_king]

We should legally enshrine extended adolescence.

 

[REDY]

Its in state´s interest get these people to do something useful and beneficial for society, not support their lazyiness and maintain their upper class status by extending their adolescence.

 

[Rashiminos]

We should legally enshrine extended adolescence.

Are the longevity figures expected to rise or fall for the foreseeable future?

 

[civ_king]

Its in state´s interest get these people to do something useful and beneficial for society, not support their lazyiness and maintain their upper class status by extending their adolescence.

Are the longevity figures expected to rise or fall for the foreseeable future?

Society is facing a serious issue in that the five hallmarks of adulthood:
Leaving Home
Becoming Financially Independent
Completing School
Marrying
Starting a Family

As becoming seriously unreachable:
1) housing both rent and mortgages are becoming unreachable in many areas
2) See #1
3) Completing school now means college instead of high school meaning this is attained at 22-27 instead of 17-18
4) Due to schooling taking so long these days the ability to afford to marry is being reached 25-30 (or later)
5) Due to cost of housing and student loans children are hard to afford when young.


Due to this rising so much the age to be tried as an adult should be raised, being able to be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or capital punishment at 16 is utter BS.

 

[bhsup]

[22:09:25] <VRWCAgent> *deleted*, nothing personal against your generation, but all of the "extended adolescence" crap is getting on my nerves.
[22:09:43] <VRWCAgent> In fact, I may make a thread about how it's getting on my nerves, and what I think we should do about it.
[22:12:55] <VRWCAgent> They're clearly, regardless of whether they consider themselves adolescents or not, still capable of knowing right from wrong.
[22:13:17] <VRWCAgent> So no freebies on crime. But they also clearly don't think themselves ready for the world.
[22:13:30] <VRWCAgent> So, raise voting, drinking, and all that crap to 25
[22:13:41] <VRWCAgent> Basically, all of the responsibility, but none of the priviledges.
[22:13:50] <VRWCAgent> whiney little *bleep*.
[22:15:32] <VRWCAgent> actually, I'm not going to make a new thread, I'm just gonna paste my comments here into the existing one...

 

[Rashiminos]

[22:13:50] <VRWCAgent> whiney little *bleep*

I'm just going to quote this by itself.

 

[Gucumatz]

I thought I heard something about Florida offering higher scholarships to people who enter a field with a high consequential probability of finding work afterwards

 

[Terxpahseyton]

How can a university not have housing? Where do students live?

Cute
In Germany the vast majority of students don't live in dorms. There simply aren't enough.
But yes, private housing can be a considerable issue depending on where you study. On the other hand, a culture of shared flats will have established in any university city where basically one generations of students will pass down their private flats to another generation. Castings are held to fill rooms gone free (I once had the pleasure to partake in them). Though keep in mind that education itself is basically free + many students get special public loans of up to 650 or so per month without any interest and of which you will only have half to repay, even less if you are a very good student.
The point being: German students have less financial burden, more financial wriggle room to pay for housing.