• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I had a series of classes in college with 6 students, including myself. If one of us failed, the rest wouldn’t be able to do the next course in the series. It didn’t help that the classes were some of the most difficult in our major. Barely made it through all 4 classes lmao

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        6 months ago

        It was honestly incredible. We all had so much time between classes, so we’d just get that classroom unlocked and hang out in there. There was a time all 6 of us decided to just have nap time. Professor walked in to all of us sleeping in makeshift beds. A couple of us even stashed blankets in that room. We really did work together on everything. Like, we’d have communal study guides and just edit it as we saw fit, then go over it as a group before tests. I was considerably shorter than everyone else, so I was the one who got to crawl under desks to plug in Ethernet cables and all that jazz.

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      6 months ago

      And apparently the man is worth $500 million. By ultra rich standards that’s not even wildly wealthy. How many people could somebody like Warren Buffet pay education costs for?

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        Average cost of college is under $150k/person. Warrant Buffet is worth $133,500,000,000 (rounded heavily). Warranty buffet could pay for approximately 890,000 people to go to college.

        However given the fact that is most of a million people, and how much of a racket education in the US, I think the actual figure is much higher, because he could do several things to drastically reduce the overhead involved.