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2016 Postmortem

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

8. I worked part-time while going to college, but I had to quit

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #7)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 01:46 PM

Oct 2015

because there just wasn't time to work and do all the homework involved in an engineering degree. I was able to quit, but how many others have to work and have to eat a lower GPA because of it?

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As a mother paying off Parent Plus loans and watching my kids try [View all] hedgehog Oct 2015 OP

is the ten hours a week hc wants kids to work supposed to go towards tuition costs? questionseverything Oct 2015 #1

Each student's situation is different - some have time for binge drinking at parties hedgehog Oct 2015 #3

I worked full time going to college yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #7

I worked part-time while going to college, but I had to quit hedgehog Oct 2015 #8

I would not have worked full time if I was engineering for sure yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #12

Wow! Fully agree on the messed up GPA. Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #14

the difference is now questionseverything Oct 2015 #10

Ideally bluestateguy Oct 2015 #2

Some of my kids had internships which led to permanent jobs - hedgehog Oct 2015 #6

Hillary supports students working because it provides cheap labor for Corporations. sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #16

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #4

I was afraid I'd get alerted on, but I took the risk hedgehog Oct 2015 #5

I would assume Chelsa got a full ride because of her last name Travis_0004 Oct 2015 #9

Possibly but then again we don't know what her cum was at sidwell or SAT scores yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #13

Plenty of people work and school Sunlei Oct 2015 #11

Chelsea is a National Merit Scholar finalist so she probably got a scholarship leftofcool Oct 2015 #15

Every child should have those opportunities. But of course, they don't. They at least should have sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #17