Another Virtual Semester?

Seems like a lot of schools are making their first few weeks remote, and I have a feeling that once they get their tuition dollars paid for, they may just make the rest of the semester remote and/or make campus life like a prison. I am a junior, and I have already had 2.5 remote semesters, and I really do not want to do that again. I am signed for SA 2022 and currently expected to graduate in May 2023. If things look they're going remote again, I think I would want to take a gap semester and probably work/intern/ski/surf and delay graduation to Fall 2023. How would this affect my internship/ how would I go about potentially deferring it?

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I spent all my COVID semesters in Europe having a good time.  Or if it's not cancelled I'll be on campus having a good time.  Either way, life is good.

I strongly doubt this will happen though, as the public is clearly not on board with returning to lockdown.

 

This is maybe just me, but I would counsel against deferring graduation just because you don’t dig the remote learning stuff. First of all, what’s keeping the school from going remote two semesters? In that case you either double down or get no benefit (avoiding the remote learning you dislike). Second, graduating in longer than 4 years always looks a bit weird in my book. It’s very common to graduate in 5+, but you just get fewer questions the other way around. Third, deferral on a secured offer is far from assured, and you don’t want to put questions in people’s heads about flaking or something. It’s just not my style; I don’t know about you. I do know that I like distance learning a lot less than most people, so that’s likely part of it.

 

Honestly, it's a great thing.

University content is increasingly devoid of any value whatsoever. A decade ago, you'd waste time with half of the modules being stuff you'll never use in your career or anything whatsoever. Today's universities, thanks to the liberal takeover, are basically facilities to turn people into terrorists, vandals or sociopaths of some sort, so it's even worse. The less you learn from them, the better.

So, you pay tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds, for a place that you don't even go to, nor learn anything from? Good. It further widens the gap between what you pay and what you get, so the market will have to catch up eventually.

The most important thing is that liberals are never, ever allowed to dump the student debt on hard working Americans who didn't get scammed by their ''colleges''. If university graduates want their money back, it should come from the pockets of overpaid academics and administrators.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 
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I feel bad for students at real schools. I wouldn't say college was the best years of my life, but they were good years. I don't remember any of the classes--I remember the people, friends, parties, athletic events. It's just awful that young people--who are at nearly no risk to Covid--are having their college years destroyed for no reason whatsoever. 

For students at the elite schools (i.e., the schools that teach you nothing/actively teach lies), it sucks for them because being on-campus is how you meet friends for life who will help you in your career. 

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You are absolutely right, but at this point the priority is to let something that's irreparably rotten collapse. Missing out the college experience helps that way. It makes the whole institution even more useless. Good chance for a ''great reset'' indeed.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

Yeah, I don't really give a fuck about the classes lol. It's everything else: friends, parties, doing stupid shit, girls, sports, clubs, etc. Even just talking to professors in person and forming relationships with them.

 

Explain how did it get to $1.7 trillion then

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

He was referring to student debt. You can pay $320, $320,000 or $320M for your education as long as you pay it back and don't force taxpayers to bail you out. 

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Your bank would really not be happy if you did this, since they have to both fill your FT spot and also leave a SA 2023 spot open for you to start FT 2024. Remote really sucks but unless you have a really compelling reason you might lose a return offer trying to do this

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