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2016 Postmortem

Wellstone ruled

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14. Wow! Fully agree on the messed up GPA.

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 02:41 PM

Oct 2015

Did the same thing only worked almost forty hours part time and damn near around the clock during Semester Breaks and Summers. Had to stretch my four year program to five because of the required class prep time which there was never enough. But,hey,I did it. Irony was,year and half in the field,and I had enough,made a career change and never looked back. But friendships last a lifetime.

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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