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Inspired by our CNN/Youtube post, how was your college experience?

This is aimed mostly at the 'wiser' age group of our beloved Tubenet. How much was tuition at the time? How much of it was subsidized? How was the cost of living then? How many went onto 'higher learning' and how many were able to go on with just a BA? What was the mentality of higher education, or even just education in your youth?

Just curious.

1976-1981, Resident tuition in Oregon at the small state colleges was $309 a quarter at its highest. I worked 20-30 hours a week at a small family market that was flexible enough to give me time off for concerts and travel weekends for field hockey and softball. My hourly wage never topped $4.50 an hour. My last year I had $500 of athletic scholarship money. I never lived in on-campus housing; lived at home the first year and had a plethora of roommates in a variety of residences ever after.

I had enough money and enough time to do some fun stuff during my 5 year stint in college. I was pretty focused on school, activities (sports and softball) and making money to keep doing what I was doing.

Got my BS degree, graduated into an economic depression, worked some in non-related work, finally getting hired by my current agency in 1985. The BS got me advanced from DS 1 to DS II (a really meaningless designation except for more $$ for DSII) more quickly, and I picked up my Intermediate and Advanced certificates (again, meaningless exept for a 5% pay raise for each) with less time that the average deputy.

In my career field, no advanced degree is required, until you get into upper management, an area in which I have no interest. However, if I want to parlay some of my special skills (hostage negotiator and critical incident/peer support) into a retirement carreer, I will need to apend some more letters after my name. At this stage of the game, I'd rather play my tuba and ride my motorcycle when I retire.

Hello, everyone. Sorry I haven't been around for a few months.

I have gotten to see college from a different perspective, now that I am a full time professor. Now, I don't teach music, but what I do teach is still performance oriented, so I really do feel for the students.

It's really late here. It's almost a quarter to one in the morning and I have to leave for work in about five hours. I should get to sleep.

I'll be back later this week.

Bill

I recieved 36 months of kolig because the G.I. bill sent me 36 checks - one for every month I was an active duty marine.
I played three nights a week in a local bar and with my wife's salary as a printer, we finished my 36 months of school without borrowing money.
My advisor at school told me to get a doctorate if I wanted to teach music or drop out and be a player.
I attended The University of South Alabama three years and then slugged up at the Stork Club in Mobile 6 nights a week playing rockabilly dance tunes. After two years on the road playing trumpet/rhythm guitar for "Crossroads", I returned to thr Guf Coast to play beach music at any seafood joint or bar that would have me.
Tubers up!
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