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  1. Zoho doesn't pay for college loans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers

    http://edububble.com/dpp/?p=511

    While many of the PhDs had their degrees funded by the government, they still have big student loans and need to service them. This Zoho guy is smart.

  2. Feel empathy for the students and their debt by cornicefire · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy

    The guy who wrote Beating the College Bubble says that the cost of college debt is so high, everyone should feel empathy for the students, not demand empathy from them. I agree. (For a Slashdot review, read this .)

  3. Feel empathy for the students and their debt by cornicefire · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy

    The guy who wrote Beating the College Bubble says that the cost of college debt is so high, everyone should feel empathy for the students, not demand empathy from them. I agree. (For a Slashdot review, read this .)

  4. And there was even a book reviewed on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Too Many College Graduates?

    Beating the College Bubble

    The main site is a great blog.

  5. Re:Still Important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009

    If it's to save money... maybe they should try not leaving all several hundred of our puplic computers on all night, and for the whole summer and winter vacations!

    Did someone say "money"?

    http://www.edububble.com/dpp/

    When colleges are cutting computer labs, you know the bubble is ready to burst.

  6. Re:Do you want to piss away your 30's too? by Hao+Wu · · Score: 1 · on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35?

    If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks. At 35, you'd think he'd be better off going to a doctoral program (assuming he has SOME degree and an interest) where he'd pay little for it and could wash out after a year and a half to two years with a master's degree and little to no debt.

    http://www.edububble.com/dpp/

    You can download his book for free. His thesis: that the "education bubble" will eventually break just like housing. (What were we ever thinking?! That $200k in debt is "worth it"?!)

    Even law and medical students are being screwed. They won't escape debt and make decent money until many years after graduation.

    Education is priceless. Today's university system is essentially a giant credit card scam.

  7. Re:TED conference by Hao+Wu · · Score: 2, Interesting · on NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University"

    It's basically an event where you pay for the privilege of schmoozing with famous people, be they celebrities, scientists, politicians, etc.

    That's what college has become - very expensive entertainment: http://www.edububble.com/dpp/

  8. hey, anyone notice the book cover? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Beating the College Bubble

    what's up with the fish-leaping-to-another-bowl pic on the cover:

    cover of Beating the College Bubble

    I've seen that pic somewhere before:

    cover of STATS: Modeling the World

    Coincidence?