Student turns to stripping because of GS

I know there is already a lot of grief on this site for students taking out huge loans for low-potential careers, but I think this BusinessWeek article stands on its own, at least in the comedy department.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_3…

The featured girl went to a for-profit college in Florida and earned a bachelor's in Game Art and Design. After her studies concluded, the best she could get was a job making $12/hour. Later, she was laid off when her department was shut down.

Now, she's stripping. And blaming her school for allegedly tricking her into a worthless degree. The article also ties in the fact that Goldman owns a 38% stake in the school's parent company. The subtitle reads "Goldman Sachs made millions through its stake in EDMC, whose schools peddle arts degrees costing up to $100,000."

The girl was drawn to the college by a pop-up ad on her computer and shelled out $70,000 for her game art degree (well actually her parents paid for it all). But BusinessWeek still jumped on it for a story. Go figure...

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You mean I can spend 1/4th the money, 1/4th the time and still get that high paying job at the strip club!!!!!!? Sign me up. For-profit colleges are such a joke.

Reality hits you hard, bro...
 
Trojans11holy shit liverp00l, you just gave me a new idea! a for profit adult-service technical college... (no joke)

whole new meaning to the post of "department head".

 

-This video shows more stories of pathetic people that majored in X, Y, and Z, and now are 100K in debt.

-Also, it says that the bottom 40% of a high school class would not graduate college.

Look Away, It's Now Diamonds
 

"The girl was drawn to the college by a pop-up ad on her computer ".....

...face meets palm.

You know you've been working too hard when you stop dreaming about bottles of champagne and hordes of naked women, and start dreaming about conditional formatting and circular references.
 

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