To the woman who it trying to collect 10M pennies to pay your student loan. I really wish you could spend the 10M pennies for a single slice of common sense. You are going to be $100K in debt for a Geology degree? I nearly shit my pants when I read that. At the very least use this $100k to build a time machine and go back to when you were considering this Geology degree and don’t. By the way I hope you have a well built house because 10M pennies weighs 55,000 pounds.
–Dumbfounded
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
isn’t there gigs for geologists for mining/oil exploration companies still?
I have to agree. What a bloody useless degree for an unbelievable amount of money. I thought my $30,000 useless degree was bad enough.
Stupid idea is stupid. Get a job and stop going back to school for more degrees.
but but.. if she stopped going to school, she’d have no reason to NOT get a FULL TIME job. oh wait.. its tending to her facebook begging group.
I’d have to say most politely: Fuck off and get a job!
Why even print such fucking garbage . Let’s help those that REALLY need it.
Once again, Fuck off and get a job!
I have a bag full of can tabs she can have.
And it wasn’t as if she was paying for room and board, she was living with mommy and daddy. My son is about finished at Acadia (4 yrs Kin) and his loan might be $28,000 with a degree that’s worth more than a BA. He worked hard to support himself and made the dean’s list.
hate to be the one rolling them,and taking them to a bank.and btw,most banks will not accept more than 50 bucks in pennies anymore.good luck on that one sweetcheeks.
I know a geologist who makes 150k per year (base) plus perqs, travel, rrsp, and unknown other incentives.
Between mining and oil a geologist can readily manage 100k loan (guessing she is lumping student loan and credit card debt together). That said, it’s unlikely she’ll ever work up to that level of salary if she stays in NS.
Wonder how long it would take to roll/process 10M pennies? Even with one of those little coin sorters and the pre-rolled paper.
I think it’s time to start teaching students money management skills.
How does one accumulate $100G in debt getting a 4-year degree while living at home? Certainly, not by living frugally. Students should be educated (probably as early as junior or high school about money management). Certainly, they should understand when taking out a loan that they’ll have to pay it back and that buy $6 frappacinos is not a good investment if it takes 10 years to pay it back.
But…but…she’s already got an Honors Degree in Sociology!!! http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/canada/a…
That’s got to ‘count’ for something, right? Right?
Its foolishness like this that probably works against the students you see on TV whenever tuition fees are newsworthy. Its really too bad we can’t rethink the educational system in North America and adopt a European model. Just because you can go to university doesn’t necessarily mean that you should.
3 earthquakes in 3 days and you bitches think a geology degree is useless. Think outside the box for a change.
I also think its funny(but not really) that in the article from November that she ‘vowed to not leave university until there is a job waiting for her’. Holy. Fuck.
Kay, an undergrad in geology from SMU is useless. She will need to invest another $30,000 in her Masters in Geology before she can predict earthquakes.
Cranky, your point is….? An expensive education leaves you… stoopid and unemployed? Doubtful.
In the case of this woman? It leaves you educated and massively in debt beyond what would be reasonable for the education received. $100,000 is Harvard, not Robie St High.
And once again, seeing as how my original post on this matter didn’t pass muster: it once again demonstrates the inability of our local media to ask questions beyond what is necessary for a puff piece of a story, ie, how did this person incur such a massive debtload for such a degree and how could the banks/her family allow it to get to this point?
“Having already earned an honours degree in sociology with a minor in English at Dalhousie, she is finishing up a degree in geology this year”
I had always thought Geology was an excellent thing to study, if you had the ability and interest.
Professional Geologists are paid very, very well. (I know two of them, one here in NS, and one in AB and both of them have fantastic jobs.)
Advice to “Penny Girl” (if she’s reading this):
Too bad about the wrong first step with Sociology—oh, well, now you have a good general basic education, so that’s nothing to sneeze at—but you are on a different path now. One that I presume you chose with some deliberate effort on your part.
I have already mentioned on here before that you pretty much HAVE to continue on to the Master’s/PhD level if you want to work in a scientific field—you are not “done” at the Bachelor’s level; that is just the beginning.
You have completed your “basic training,” so to speak, but you have a few more years of advanced research and training ahead of you if you want to work in Geology—which is what you DO want, right?
Oh, and there is FUNDING available for graduate study, especially for women in sciences and engineering. If a grad program wants, you, they PAY you to attend (usually in the form of stipends, assistantships, etc.)
Don’t waste your time rolling pennies—that kind of “small thinking” is a waste of time. (If you are going to beg for change, at least ask for loonies and twonies!!!) Put your mental and physical energy into something more worthwhile and satisfying. Like getting the education you need to work in a your field.
My uncle is a Geologist with the government up in Sudbury. It’s a decent job, from what he tells me, good pay too. He’s sending
kay, I think the point is that just an undergrad (with or without major) is not really useful to the real, employable world, especially in the sciences. There’s just too much competition.
Sorry, that meant to read: He’s sending his kids to university, sans loans…
I think the problem is not that there are good geology jobs available, but rather that there are more good geology graduates than good geology jobs available.
Besides, this woman doesn’t even have a geology degree. She has a sociology degree, which she isn’t using. She went back to school to get a geology degree and ended up in $100,000 debt.
Then she wants to beg people for their money to pay it off. She just couches it in a cute, pretty way.
kay, our residential kaytard, and exactly how many geologists/scientists predicted this current earthquake in Haiti. That’s right, none, no forewarning at all.
That’s ironic, Bro. Kay’s not a geologist either (or a lawyer, etc.) and she was unable to predict the earthquake also. I’m sure she thinks she is a geologist and can predict shit though.
I think the geolocial community has been aware for a long time regarding the fault lines that are directly underneath Haiti—it has been regarded as extremely earthquake prone for decades, just like Japan and California.
Even if there had been *some* warning (and there often is) sometimes techtonic plate movements can happen very quickly, and short of evacuation there is not a lot that can be done. Sadly, there is no such thing as “Earthquake Prevention.”
Not fair to disregard the highly-respectable field of geological science just because the earth itself remains unpredictable and often hostile to us tiny humans.
If you care about Haiti, then please donate to the relief efforts through a reliable aid organization.
What I find strange is that “the world” only cares about Haiti now because of the earthquake. Haiti has been a disaster area (in every sense of the word) for countless decades and has mainly been ignored.
I still find it remarkable that someone could accumulate $100 000 in debt during a 4-year degree while living with one’s parents. Even if she pays off this debt and gets a great paying job, she’ll be accumulating debt for the rest of her life if she doesn’t get some money management skills.
I’m not a geologist and never said I was. I’m not a lawyer and never said I was that either. I live under the same laws as your do. Fat, go get a new hobby.
To those who think a degree in geology is useless please tell me a better way to gain access to the highest paid positions in the largest industry on the planet… oil & gas, if you didn’t know.
Bro Tim, the world or at least America has been caring for Haiti for a LONG time. Ref “Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean”
It’s my belief that people who once prided themselves on their promiscuity, so much so that they walked around holding a balloon with the number of their sex partners on it in celebration, seemed to miss out on some big-time Sex For Money opportunities.
I think the replies on here show how stoopid some people can be….
and personally, good luck to her. she’s now a panhandler with two degrees.
nice.
you storing them in tims cups too?
Also, undergrads are fine in some sciences… you just have to be willing to fucking work hard and not feel all self-entitled and turn down any job under 40K a year because it ‘won’t let you pay your loans down quickly enough’…
you’ll be working for a while, they’ll get paid off when you’re 35 and you can make a new start at life.