r/SipsTea • u/Bigb5wm • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! College scammed them

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u/No-Cap-9873 1d ago

Colleges are the biggest scammers; they are just a company. They don't give a shit about you, only your money.

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u/TheFloridaKraken 1d ago

ehhh.. My university went out of their way to help me quite a bit. A lot of my professors were really awesome. Far better than any boss/supervisor I've ever had. YMMV

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u/Alexis_Mcnugget 1d ago

you think they did that for free lol?

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u/Foreign_Sky_5441 1d ago

Also like, ofc professors are separate from the admin. That's sort of like saying "Starbucks is a great company because my barista is nice to me". Professors aren't the one dictating the price or how much conjoined twins have to pay.

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u/Alexis_Mcnugget 1d ago

fair but most professors are terrible at their job anyways

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u/Foreign_Sky_5441 1d ago

Idk, I hated my college passionately by the end of it but had mostly positive views of all my professors except maybe the few who graded unfairly.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch-6955 1d ago

Their job is usually primarily research, not teaching.

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u/Estanho 20h ago

In my university, I only had like 3 actually bad professors out of several dozen which ranged from decent to excellent (computer engineering).

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u/Well_Thats_Not_Ideal 1d ago

With the amount of unpaid work academics do if they care about their students, yeah basically

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u/Alexis_Mcnugget 1d ago

I guess i’ll give it to the 3% who actually care

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u/talented-dpzr 1d ago

My experience with professors is they care about as much as you care about actually learning. If you're just there to collect credits, graduate, and get a corporate job they aren't going to go out of their way for you. If you actually have an interest in the material and show you do the readings they will take the time and put in the effort for you.

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u/Alexis_Mcnugget 21h ago

i’ve seen this be the case for very few professors while the rest might as well be subs

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u/Darnell2070 22h ago

Good for you

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u/relativelyjewish 1d ago

How much would they have helped without paying up to $20k per year 🤭

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u/bigwangersoreass 1d ago

I got a lot of help and I only paid $4000 for my entire masters. All 4 years lmao

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u/relativelyjewish 1d ago

Paying $4000 for a masters isn't the steal you think it is 😅 Would really like to know what field it is.... 😬

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u/bigwangersoreass 1d ago

Oh I’ll laugh with you it’s financial economics lmao it’s not fancy at all

Thankfully my school was super helpful with job fairs which lead to job offers. You don’t need to pay a ton for your degree to land a good job.

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u/relativelyjewish 12h ago

Well it's just a lot of high demand fields the masters and PhDs are either entirely free plus give a monthly stipend to live on, or free plus a stipend if you teach classes. Idk to me paying $4000 seems like a lot

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u/ShaoShaoTenks 1d ago

As if you can get help in this world without paying up. Professional help needs professionals who actually spent their time to do "help" properly. Who knew!

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u/relativelyjewish 1d ago

Look comparing a professor you are paying for mentorship to a boss' mentorship at a company you're being paid to work at is just kinda objectively stupid. Which is what they were doing

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u/Ultrace-7 13h ago

How much do you help people for free when you have bills to pay?

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u/relativelyjewish 12h ago edited 10h ago

Eh, none, unless they're interning at my company or working for cheap. What exactly is your point? I think any mentorship that goes for $20,000 per year is pretty overvalued.

Top comment ITT: "Colleges are the biggest scammers; they are just a company. They don't give a shit about you, only your money."

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u/EtTuBiggus 1d ago

Because you paid them to.

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u/TheFloridaKraken 20h ago

I had a full ride scholarship thanks to Florida's Bright Futures.

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u/EtTuBiggus 4h ago

They paid them to. Same difference.

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u/atlaskennedy 1d ago

Are you thinking that’s the norm? Mine went well out of their way to hound me for money lol.

Also, professors shouldn’t treat you like supervisors, because they’re professors…

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u/ghdana 22h ago

Because you could decide to not pay them next semester and go somewhere else.