Yes.

Biggest reason? There was a campus golf course…oh…and the academics were amazing. The only thing that bothered me was their weak football team…which…after last season’s upset of USC, looks to be rebounding in the right way.

It’s funny how these Doctors and Lawyers go to school after high school for at least 8 years then they have to work 20-30 years to pay off their school loans and then they get to live their life. But such is life.

Me personally I believe all one has to have is an high school education, the basics. Then on to a school which specializes in your interest and nothing else. But that’s just me.

I did all that. Got my BA from UH. And I ain’t depending on mama and papa no more for shelter or food or whatever. I’ll still take a free meal from them, but, I’ll take ‘em to dinner, too.

You gotta DO what interests you, too, you know? That’s the only way you gonna WANT to put in hours, initially, w/hardly any pay or overtime. You gotta start somewhere.

I got offers from the mainland AND locally when I graduated.

I liked going to UH-Manoa. In my day, you worked for your grade (I’m not saying that’s not the case now at UH-M; what I AM saying is that I’m glad I didn’t attend somewhere where they inflate the grades . . . “oh, you got INTO this institution; you couldn’t have possibly earned a C or less.”).

I admit, maybe some luck played into it. But, that doesn’t discount hard work. And, I WANTED to go UH, whoo-hoo, go Warriors (or, ecckkk, Rainbow Warriors at the time; still, I love UH-M).

A collegiate education is not a waste of money. Everyone in the US should have the opportunity to go to college and a national plan to facilitate it that makes sense and should be found. A well educated public is worth every penny. In this election year I am astounded that not more is spoken about this key national security interest. We are 20 something in the world now in education and that will do more to harm our national security long term than anything else.

i teach middle school and i tell my students, education is personal. what you put into it, is what you get out of it. you can go to an ivy league school and party for 4 years and get a so-so education or you can go to a way cheaper school and work hard, take challenging classes, and meet others and get a great education.

Richard:
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm

The USA Today article is extremely interesting and well-worth reading. My comments: I work for the State of Hawaii, where many of our secretaries (”administrative professionals”) have college degrees, so if you’re looking for a leg up, even at this level, you better get that degree.

Secondly, our new head football coach, who supervises less than 100 students and athletes, is making over $1 million dollars a year, while Governor Lingle, who is in charge of more than 40,000 people, makes one-tenth of that. Does that make sense? In the meantime, UH is in disrepair, needing over hundreds of millions of dollars to fix.

University football coaches make a lot of money because they bring in more money into universities through the football games. Hence you have to spend money to make money.

As for UH being in disrepair, UH kept bitching about autonomy from the state during the ’90s. UH then got autonomy, and then that foolio Ben Cayetano cut the funding to the University. I believe UH also owns a lot of bonds and they have to wait until the bonds maturate before the money can be released for repairs.

The thing that made college worth it for me was all the other experience, actually that was the real learning for me as I wasn’t the most focused student for my undergrad. The training in life skills I got from paying my own way to school, dorming, working in the dorms, etc. was key. So in that regards it was well worth it.