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University: The most expensive holiday you’ll ever have
- tkahn6 16y agoThis is probably the most inane and anti-intellectual thing I've read in a while.
- praeclarum 16y agoMost expensive holiday? I marvel at the lack of imagination. I know a lot of fun ways I could have alternatively spent the $125,000. God, I can't even afford a Virgin Galactic flight for that.
- rythie 16y agoIt doesn't cost anywhere near that much in the U.K., more like $20-30k debt after 3 years on average. I think the title is misleading but the rest is true.
- Jamiecon 16y agoIt's a fairly accurate summary of British University, for many anyway. And yeah in the UK it's cheap. I graduated with about £15k of low interest debt, and my parents probably spent another £10k
- SteveTooth 16y agoAnti-intellectual. I'm not sure it's mocking intellect, the Shakespear, Aristotle comment seems to be mocking false erudition and pretense that sometimes characterises graduates. University does not necessarily make people intellectual. The sex and poo? Crude I'll admit, none the less demonstrating the meaninglessness of taboos through directly challenging them. These people may be horny little pooers but at least they don't take everything for granted.