Despite all the problems with the higher education system in the US, the common excuse of “I can’t afford it” is null and void. Nearly unlimited financial aid is available to anyone and everyone who walks in the door and signs up. Yes, you may have to borrow some money. Yes, you’ll have enough left over to cover the vaunted “living expenses”. If you want a career bad enough you’ll do what you have to to get it.
Slick - what is this vast treasure trove of lendable money you speak of? I’ve been doing the Stafford Loan program but that limits out at 8500/y.
[QUOTE=dncartersweatte1993;155868]Could someone give C.captain a tissue please… He locked himself in the head, and I hear sobbing…[/QUOTE]
actually what you are hearing in incessant blasphemous cursing and extreme efforts to avoid cataclysmic detonation. Doin pretty good so far I would say…the pink pills with a vodka chaser really help!
Perkins, Pell. Stafford Sub and Un-Sub, GI Bill, Private Students Loans, myriad Scholarship types for mild effort on the students part. That is only the tip of the iceberg. More than enough $$$ for someone willing to look hard.
If one is having trouble securing money for school, either they’re not looking hard enough, working hard enough, or their financial aid counselor is doing them a disservice. Some folks are personally opposed to taking on any debt at all in order to enter a new career, and I suppose those folks really are jammed up.
[QUOTE=Mate_Zac;155895]I appreciate it you all. I will be taking the advice for sure. As for my volunteer work I’ve covered that base too. As for now it seems to be a game of hurry up an wait. So I’m just working on getter letters in and calling admissions weekly to check the status of my application. Maybe it all works out only time will tell[/QUOTE]
While my day was decades ago, do they not at least tell you where your ranking is among those who are also wait listed? That was the way it used to be. . . . .
No they won’t tell me my tank, but for the moment I’m still competing at the state level. So hopefully I get picked out of that list rather than nationally
Also everyone is forgetting the SSO program at all the state maritime academies, which if accepted for SIP, you will receive $4000 per semester. Couple that with financial aid (grants), and the many different scholarships available, than the state academy option seems more feasible. As mentioned before TMA offers in state tuition to all maritime program cadets, the SSO program is good, and the list of scholarships is pretty big.
That being said, good luck either way.
[QUOTE=Mate_Zac;155927]No they won’t tell me my tank, but for the moment I’m still competing at the state level. So hopefully I get picked out of that list rather than nationally[/QUOTE]
What do you mean by “waitlist”? Assuming you mean “hold” in the portal.
Anyway, I don’t know whether anyone can give you odds, but in recent years they start picking them up in March right into June, evidently rolling through whatever remaining slots there are free up. But some number will get admitted, so good luck.
If this career and/or education is what you want, I endorse what the others are saying about the State schools and where theres a will theres certainly a way to pay for them. The State schools effectively give you more options re majors aside from license, as well as careers, since you don’t have the industry obligation. That is unless you go SSOP in which case you go the Commission route and essentially have the deal upon graduation that a KP grad does. But that stipend gets tuition in the neighborhood of $10K/year (if you can deal with the zero-dark-thirty phys training all semester long). They are all good but in my biased opinion, Fort Schuyler is best.
Finally, with all the government billions sloshing around for the higher ed industrial complex, no excuse to say anyone’s too poor. And unlike most colleges, you’ll pay the loans back in no time, if you even need to take them out in the first place.
What’s wrong with “y’all”?
As a future KP grad I hope your plans of sailing consist of you joining the navy or with MSC… Bc I know those whose taxs dollars working offshore in other sectors do not wish for you to join the oil and gas industry or better yet sailing foreign… Gee hate to see my tax dollars going to waste again!
[QUOTE=justaboatdriver;155960]What’s wrong with “y’all”?[/QUOTE]
I personally don’t think anything is wrong with it but I know others see at as a sign of someone being uneducated.
No my plans are to sail US flagged vessels for my commitment and stay in the navy reserve. Then possibly work in the business end of shipping after about 10 or so depending on how life is looking for me at the time
And as for the “y’all” it’s really a contraction just like the word you used “don’t” It is you all, so therefore it’s y’all. Just fine grammar
[QUOTE=Mate_Zac;155991]And as for the “y’all” it’s really a contraction just like the word you used “don’t” It is you all, so therefore it’s y’all. Just fine grammar[/QUOTE]
Cuz it’s a Southern thang 'n eberbody no’s dem southern hillbillies hain’t got no learnins.
Sheeet, eberbody no’s da bestist skools are uppen da northeast where we all talk rite normal like.
“Y’all” - It jist sounds ignate.
[QUOTE=justaboatdriver;155960]What’s wrong with “y’all”?[/QUOTE]
Cuz it’s a Southern thang 'n eberbody no’s dem southern hillbillies hain’t got no learnins.
Sheeet, eberbody no’s da bestist skools are uppen da northeast where we all talk rite normal like.
“Y’all” - It jist sounds ignate.
Edit: OK, silly shit aside. “Y’all” is a regional expression which does not get much use north of the Mason-Dixon. Best not to be used in an unfamiliar setting where you’re trying to make a good first impression. Once a level of familiarity is achieved, it’s fine.
Fuck that he can use it where ever he feels like it. I know when I hear “you guys” that person isn’t from around here. People assume I’m a dumbass because of the way I talk and that’s their mistake. When I’m explaining something to an academy kid and it’s going over his head I say “dude I’m from Alabama I can’t talk any slower”.
It seems like a requirement on the COI to have at least one New Englander onboard. That’s my favorite accent of all. I got lots of close friends from Cape Odd to up Maine. I love traveling up that way. My favorite is the mind blown look on the waitresses face when I’ve ordered food. I’ve even had surrounding tables stop eating and turn in their chairs to stare as I order.
[QUOTE=Mate_Zac;155991]And as for the “y’all” it’s really a contraction just like the word you used “don’t” It is you all, so therefore it’s y’all. Just fine grammar[/QUOTE]
You get into KP son and within no time at all, you’ll be sqweaking orders in proper King’s Engrish at everybody onboard including the dog!
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;156023]Fuck that he can use it where ever he feels like it. I know when I hear “you guys” that person isn’t from around here. People assume I’m a dumbass because of the way I talk and that’s their mistake. When I’m explaining something to an academy kid and it’s going over his head I say “dude I’m from Alabama I can’t talk any slower”.
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Had a southerner tell me once ‘yous Yankees thinks we southerners are dumb cuz we’s talk slow…we’ll maybe that’s whats we’s want y’all ta think.’ I wasn’t sure if that was a joke or a warning.
You told him in order to give a good first impression he should not use the term. You implied it would be considered ignorant of him to speak that way. To me this seems like a perceived intellectual superiority because of your regional dialect. It’s a perfectly acceptable word for a southern gentleman to say. It would seem mocking and contrived if a fella from Connecticut were to say it though.
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;156045]You told him in order to give a good first impression he should not use the term. You implied it would be considered ignorant of him to speak that way. To me this seems like a perceived intellectual superiority because of your regional dialect. It’s a perfectly acceptable word for a southern gentleman to say. It would seem mocking and contrived if a fella from Connecticut were to say it though.[/QUOTE]
All true. That’s why Connecticut Yankees don’t use the term. Is the word “everyone” that difficult to say in the south?
Hey, use the southern dialect however you want. I wont judge. I can understand it, I just can’t speak it.