Since the student loan terms ABSOLUTELY SUCK (as shown in this thread) it is better, when you make enough money to be ineligible for government loans, to get an unsecured loan. At least then when you make extra payments they reduce the principle.
Yes, there are 529 plans. But one has to be in a position to contribute or to have family that can contribute sufficiently for such a plan to be very helpful. FWIW I'm not at all concerned about people not being able to fund their kids' private college costs. I'm talking about people not being able to fund their kids' state school costs. Local state university now is $20K+/year, taking into account only tuition, room and board, fees and books---no extras. That's a lot for a family to come up with.
Not sure most of the kids had cars on campus, tbh. Also, tbh, my kid isn't the kind of kid to notice or care about fancy cars or designer...shoes/bags/whatever. It was more a sense of entitlement rather than possessions that bugged them.
Manufactured outrage.
I think those thresholds should be relative to the difference in age between them, adjusted by the older person's age (i.e 10 years apart is fine for a 40 year old with a 30 year old... but not a 20 year old with a 10 year old... or even a 50 year old with a 20 year old
There was an equation I saw once that worked like this. It's "is too old for you?"
The "standard" formula is age/2+7
That formula was intended to specify the ideal age difference, not the maximum.
Yeah, that's why I didn't use it. Really, we should start at y=x and add on from there, to give folks a rising ceiling.
The point is that these types of suggestions should not have legal force. An adult at least should not be deemed to young to consent to sex with somebody deemed too old for them by the intrusive nanny state, which seems what Gun Nut is suggesting.
I completely disagree. If somebody is above the age of consent (ideally 16, but at most 18) a person should be able to consent no matter how much older the other person is. What you are proposing, that there should always be some sort of limit on ability to consent, is inappropriate intrusion by an oppressive government. I mean, do you really want the government to be able to prosecute 50 year olds for consensual sex with 20 year old adults?
I am not suggesting an Autistic, hard-and-fast rule. I was responding to a specific question from Derec regarding what a jurry might consider in a statutory rape case.... not what "mandatory" lines should be drawn for minimum sentences or prosecution.
No, the formula must in most cases include those below your age because it must work both ways. If 21 can be with 25, then 25 can be with 21.
"Below your age" means "do you satisfy their curve."
Which doesn't change the fact that any reasonable rule must be bidirectional.
So, if I was going to just use x=y, the curve says "exactly your age"
Engineering majors take more humanities classes than humanities majors take science classes.
Quantifiably untrue.
I'm sure they are viewed that way, but I've served on both curriculum and transfer equivalency boards pretty recently and can guarantee you that the out-of-discipline classes students are obliged to take are being trimmed to an absolute minimum acorss the board at most schools, with enormous pressure to explain how this or that requirement directly leads to a job. This approach does not generally favor the humanities, which are poorly understood by the general public. Take a student who is currently enrolled at a community college in California but knows their end goal is a STEM program at one of the campuses of the University of California. The only humanities courses they'll ever be required to take on the way to their degree are 2 english composition courses, if you even count those as humanities, and one course specifically in a humanities discipline (which could easily be something on the more STEM side of the social sciences as well). The rest are waived or otherwise evitable for STEM-bound students, as long as that's their plan from the start, because they are exempted from a full five courses of the usual GE pattern. Whereas, a student in one of the humanities disciplines has to follow the full transfer pattern, no exceptions, meaning however many classes necessary to get them to transfer level mathematics and 2 courses in the physical or biological sciences. It's also much more likely that their degree program will require further science education - for instance, an anthropology, sociology, or psychology degree at my institution require quite a few science courses. But it's rare for the reverse to be true, that a STEM field other than medicine will require non-STEM classes beyond what the general education pattern obliges.
