While We Wait: Part 5

[Supermath]

And lo, there was the magic of FAFSA, and it did shine forth upon the fruited plains, and there was increased possibility for university admissions by even those less fortunate, financially. Also, a vast improvement in the community college system...the local one here is actually pretty good, even rich kids go to it sometimes, because you can go straight from there to UVA or another state school...

Not saying that the system is perfect or anything but it's certainly pretty good IMHO.

I am going to love FAFSA, I have a feeling.

Why not strictly Ivy League, my son went to Swarthmore and we paid less than half of the "posted" $36,000 annual tuition rate through Fasfa filing. He accumulated about $7k worth of stafford loans and we are paying those off.

Okay, so we now have a lower bound for how old BJ is...

 

[carmen510]

Actually, I believe BJ is around 50, from remembering a post several months ago, if I recall correctly.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Okay, so we now have a lower bound for how old BJ is...

Actually, I believe BJ is around 50, from remembering a post several months ago, if I recall correctly.

50 would be nice. I did not know my age (other than being "old") was of any interest. Should I leave it a mystery and let the speculation continue?

A better lower bound would be...higher.

 

[sp1023]

I thought you were a grandfather, like 60 in July or something.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I thought you were a grandfather, like 60 in July or something.

No grandchildren yet, my son is 25 and my daughter 21; we had children later than most.

 

[Dachs]

Okay, so what happened is that Sheep mixed up Barbossa and Barbarossa (apparently unable to figure out the connection between the avatars of the respective posters and their in thread comments...or making a failed attempt at a funny), I made fun of him, sp1023 didn't realize what I was doing, and then carmen jumped on him for same? Wow, the stuff that happens when you go to dinner.

Also, Birdjag is just 'as old as the hills'. Leave it at that.

 

[sp1023]

Yes, although I still don't get it...

 

[Dachs]

Yes, although I still don't get it...

I posted "Barbossa is Hungry" to set Sheep straight on whether it was Barbossa or Barbarossa. Added the picture to make it clearer. The "is hungry" was a reference to the track on the Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl soundtrack, "Barbossa is Hungry", which is the music from the fight between the Interceptor and the Pearl.

 

[Luckymoose]

No grandchildren yet, my son is 25 and my daughter 21; we had children later than most.

You are around 66.

 

[Symphony D.]

It's not necessarily that it's bad, but you have to cut through some red tape to get to it.

It takes all of thirty minutes. If your parents are poor it goes even quicker, because then it just skips asking for your own financial information entirely.

It's not volunteering if you get paid for it, it becomes a job.

Even Peace Corps pays you. There's a huge difference between short-term volunteering and long-term volunteering. Welcome to America! Please read the manual and watch your step!

 

[Symphony D.]

How'd that happen?

 

[alex994]

Even Peace Corps pays you. There's a huge difference between short-term volunteering and long-term volunteering. Welcome to America! Please read the manual and watch your step!

But the Peace Corps is different then just spending time at random environmental maintenance activities, helping out at a food kitchen, canvassing for a nonprofit organization, those are all short-term volunteering as opposed to the Peace Corps.

Or does the plan pay for short-term as well as long-term volunteering?

 

[Symphony D.]

Or does the plan pay for short-term as well as long-term volunteering?

I would argue that when coupled with running a minimum of 12-semester hours a week in classes (12), the requisite 24-semester hours supposedly necessary for homework (36), and probably a part-time job to pay for costs (we'll say 20) if not a full-time job (40), giving you a 56 to 76 hour work-week, asking you to do additional work, even if just for an hour a day on top of that, should be rated as a paid enterprise, because you are in fact giving up what would be precious free time in the work sector.

 

[Birdjaguar]

It's not necessarily that it's bad, but you have to cut through some red tape to get to it.

It takes all of thirty minutes. If your parents are poor it goes even quicker, because then it just skips asking for your own financial information entirely.

I did fasfa every year for 8 years in a row and it is not that straight forward if you have any investments or if you own a business. What you enter in year one will follow you every year thereafter. I recommend it though if you want to save money on college. If your financial situation doesn't change much from year to year, it is easier.

You are around 66.

Please don't put me in my grave yet.

 

[Dachs]

How'd that happen?

CFC hates you.

Please don't put me in my grave yet.

And lo, an upper bound.

 

[Luckymoose]

Please don't put me in my grave yet.

Grave? Grave? NESers do not die.

 

[Dachs]

Grave? Grave? NESers do not die.

On the contrary. das, as you well know, has been dead for years. And you probably shouldn't ask about what happened to Capulet.

 

[Ninja Dude]

On the contrary. das, as you well know, has been dead for years. And you probably shouldn't ask about what happened to Capulet.

What a twist.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Grave? Grave? NESers do not die.

I miss Swissempire and wonder what became of him.

 

[Supermath]

On an unrelated note, has Missouri been called for either candidate yet? There is a big uncoloured splotch in the middle of an otherwise filled-in map.