> I'll tell you what I've learned from friends going to college: It's a 4 year party that your parents pay for
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> > Wolfspirit
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> Boy did I miss out! When I went to college, I had a part time job to pay for my education. My schedule varied, but usually was something like this:
> 5 am to 8 am - work
> 8:30 - 2:30 classes
> 3 pm -6 pm work
> Then I studied a while and went to bed early so I could get up a 4 am.
> Weekends were different. I went to work at 8 am and got off at 3 pm.
> I worked for the local daily newspaper. I wrote sports, straight news, real estate transfers, and obits. I read copy and proof, set corrections on the Linotype, swept the floor in the shop, cleaned the ink decks on the press, poured pigs and ran ad copy. I covered ball games and car crashes, attended city council meetings, and county court.
> I didn't do all of those things all of the time. I was Mr. Available and filled in where I was needed. This was in the mid-fifties and I made the current minimum wage of 75 cents an hour. In my senior year, it took an act of Congress to get me a raise to $1 an hour. Sunday was the day I rested because I usually didn't have the strength to study and could barely afford to eat.
> My parents weren't able to help me. In fact, I remember giving my father $40 to have the brakes fixed on his car. I can't remember where I got that much money. Usually I had less than $5 in my wallet, and that was eating money.
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> As far as a college eductation is concerned, you will probably use only about 10% of what you learn, but it's that 10% that makes the difference. Some timee I think I learned as much at work as I did in classes.
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> I guess I missed the party.
> Howard

sorry to hear you missed the party howard. i personally have either 2 or 3 jobs at anytime (ever since i graduated high school) and also am always a full-time student (except during the summer of course) but i make time to chill with my friends...of course we don't do anything major, mostly renting movies and putt-putting...but we do hang out. i think a big part of college is figuring out how to balance it all, which in turn prepares you for 'the real world'. i just wanted to make sure that people know that you can work, go to school, and still have fun.

fam'still recovering from the spring semester...hehe'ous