A question for those in college...

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

The school i've been accepted to and plan on attending has some of the most ballin dorm i've ever seen, and its coed! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

http://park.edu/copleyquad/

I've been offered a job as part of my "financial aid" to help work off my housing bill. Its ~5k a year to live there. So I have a lot options...

1. Work it off with the clerk job i was offered. ~ 25 hours a week

2. Screw working it off, find another job and keep money in the bank.

3. Get a job in the summer and work full time, use all that money to pay it off.

4. Use my GI bill & kicker(750 a month) to pay it off.

5. Put it on student loans and have the army pay it back. Although i've heard its very difficult to get them to actually pay it off.

My tuition is fully covered and i'm taking 15 hours a semester. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

****IT HOW DO I ADD A POLL?!

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[Iakona 10+ year member]

Man im in college, and 15 hours isnt A LOT... but it can be stressful... Im a sophomore and if you are taking a "light" load at school, get a part time job and work there... it pays more. Oncampus only pays i think 6.50 (no taxes) while most jobs if you can still find one will pay 7.50+. I would say if you can do a part time (you know three days a week... or something) then do that.

 

[WildSebring 10+ year member]

No poll, ftl... Almost 3K posts too....

I'd do #1 in my own personal opinion.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

Poll Is Up!!!

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

take the job or find your own job.

 

[scarolinablazin 10+ year member]

Man im in college, and 15 hours isnt A LOT... but it can be stressful... Im a sophomore and if you are taking a "light" load at school, get a part time job and work there... it pays more. Oncampus only pays i think 6.50 (no taxes) while most jobs if you can still find one will pay 7.50+. I would say if you can do a part time (you know three days a week... or something) then do that.

id take the 6.50 with no taxes over 7.50 paying taxes. taxes avarage at least 15% with no dependants be closer to 25%

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

fial...no supa's mom in the poll, which since the poll doesnt work makes that a double fial.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

Are co-ed dorms not common or something there? All our dorms here are co-ed and our dorm has has a kitchen, doesnt look like that one does?

Its got a kitchen with a stove and stuff in the basement, each room has a microwave and fridge

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

fial...no supa's mom in the poll, which since the poll doesnt work makes that a double fial.

it works //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

When I was in the dorms our floors were co-ed, there might have been two specified single-*** buildings. I didn't live in a suite-style room like what you linked to, but I had a few friends that did, and it seemed OK. Having a common living area alleviates that "living in a closet" feeling you get with a regular dorm room...

 

[dcole18 5,000+ posts]

if its got a bathroom, kitchen, living room, and a bedroom then its not a dorm ROOM... its an apartment //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

and if you can get the last option to work, that would be FTW...

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

it works //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

still no supa's mom.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

still no supa's mom.

well as long as its not a double fial

 

[teen 10+ year member]

although coed dorms sound like fun (and they are), you still gotta remember you're there for school. shit gets distracting as hell.

i voted choice 3. basically what ive been doing is took out a loan to cover everything, and im working at my old job over breaks and save that money to spend on whatever i need during the semester. i was stupid and quit my job at the beginning of the summer so i could have some time to myself and with my good friends at home, instead of making money and putting it away so id have bank throughout the semester. instead i just barely made it by cash wise and now im broke as hell.

definitely try and get a good amount in the bank before you leave for school. everybody told me that and i let it go right over my head and now i see why they told me to do so. wish i would have listened, but i didnt sooo..... its whatever now.

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

is not the whole point of a GI bill to pay for education and educational related expenses??