A girl, a tuition, a prostitute?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3554121.stm

I remember reading about this a few months ago. This girl put up her virginity on Ebay. It was sorta funny, mostly because I didn't think she'd go through with it.

Now she has. She's gotten her 8 thousand pounds and now she's miserable.

This is what upsets me so much about college. I want to go. I'd love it, I think. But it isn't affordable. I, for one, am not willing to sleep with a stranger to go to college. Nor will I take out a student loan that I'll be stuck paying for 45 years.

Is this what people must resort to, to get an education?

I'm just saddened.

College educations must cost thousands upon thousands of dollars. The normal 18-24 year old does not make that much.

Bah.

Any thoughts?

I was trying to get my virginity back from ebay, but I got outbid.

I think you forgot part of the title....

"A girl, a tuition, a prostitute, a publicity whore?"

i was just reading an english columnist talk about how there is a push in the UK now to start charging for college education. i don't know much about universities or higher education in the UK but as i understand it, it costs little to no money to the students and the current gov't wants to change that. which means pretty soon the UK will be as educationally deficent as the US, hooray.

trying to go back to college requires selling sex or your soul or something similar. there's millions of finical aid packages, low interest loans, scholorships and things like that, but first you have to find out about them, which is hard in and of itself. then you have to qualify for them. i recently looked into this and found i don't qualify for a lot of finical aid even though i make less than 20k a year. the reason is that because i am under twenty-four for some aid i get judged by my parent's household income which is in the six figure range. try explaining to a finical aid counseler that you're paying rent to your parents and can't afford a car, you still can't get aid.

i can't figure out how from all the different taxes (sales, state income, federal income, use, property, and whatnot) i figure my tax rate probably comes to at leasst twenty percent if not more. but i can't get health insurance, or medical care, or free education, or free housing or anything else. it sounds a little communist but if i'm going to pay a socalist level tax rate i damn well expect socialist gov't benifits. maybe if i didn't have to pay so much in taxes, high cost of living and various other things i could afford to go to college. or maybe there's a bright world of scholarships and aid i'm just too stupid to find, which implies i shouldn't bother going to college at all. oh well.

if my pussy were worth half as much as hers i'd have a doctorate by now

you've got to qualify for them though. i may be wrong, but you have to have certain requirments to qualify for some scholarships.

Well, I wouldn't say it's disgusting.
Is stripping for $$ disgusting? Is being a prositute necessarily disgusting?
I don't think so

I'm saddneded by the fact that colleges cost so much she had to do this. It's not like she fucked for a new car. She was fucking to go to school, and she was upset by it.
It's not like she was all "hey! that was great...and free money!"


So i wouldn't say that overall it is disgusting, just in her situation.

sad really...

I find it hard to care. If she didn't want to do it, she shouldn't've gone through with the auction. If she's that desperate for money and can't earn it without resorting to sex, she should at least become an escort where she could choose her clients (female only) and might be more comfortable with the situation. Yeah, it's sad that she felt her financial situation was that bad, but it's hardly a unique situation for countless students in the UK. She could've found a better way of dealing with it in a way that wouldn't've been so compromising to her lifestyle and feelings.

I was lucky enough to have the government pay my tuition. All my parents pay is room and board, and I have to take out a loan next year for that (if I don't get an apartment, which I may.) next year since they can't afford it anymore. I'm a twin and we're both in college. If we didn't get our tuition payed one of us wouldn't be able to go to school.

Well what I think is saddest, is not the fact that some girl got screwed for $$.
But the fact that college costs so fucking much.

The fact that people need to resort to this in order to pay for an education (which, most people would argue, you NEED in order to live) is what really saddens me.

We don't pay to go to high school or elementary school. These are "necessities" apparently (says our government). But you can't get a "good" job without college yet you have to pay out your ass for it.

*grumble*

i just work my ass of for tuition, i got a job on the side and i work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week during summer vacation.
in return i got no debt and i have some money left to spend during the year.

Oh, I know that.
I'm barely out of high school and I'm already doing pretty well for myself (given that I'm only barely out of high school etc.)

But to do my dream job(s) I would have to go to college.

I likewise find it hard to care.....she knew exactly what she was doing, and even continued the auction after Ebay pulled hers from their site...anyone wanna bet the guy busted his nut after like 20 seconds?..Cry me a river....

I also know people that have done quite well for themselves without higher education. However, I have found that they are the exception rather than the rule.... to pull it off, you've either got to have the people skills and/or the gray matter, and most people just don't have what it really takes in either department.

And so they go to college, I guess...

And you don't think that you should have to pay for that? You're going to make money from it, why should the general population pay for it? Incidentally, to do *my* dream job I would need on the order of $15,000 worth of hardare and $10,000 worth of operating capital above what I can currently provide. Do you think that the government should just give that to me?

You don't need a college education to get by, or even do well. Nobody in my family has a college education, and they all do reasonably well. There's a whole laundry list of occupations that you can go into without a college education and that pay reasonably to extremely well. It's not at all the exception. Unless you're going into a profession that *requires* education that is.

well there is a surprise

That's why there are loans... You don't have to earn the money when you're 18-24, you can earn it later.

Like I said in my first post, then you're paying it off for 45 years.

I'm not saying it should be free.
But the amount of money that it costs is usually astronomical.

I gotta chime in. Kayla, the money is insignificant relative to the intangible benefits of higher education. Do what you love and the money will find you. Of course, you don't need an education to be successful - but it sounds like for your interests, you do. You will never regret it. And it doesn't have to cost your virginity either. Community Colleges and state universitys make it realistic. You might have to work harder than the next guy cuz you've gotta juggle a part time job and classwork, but come on, you can get it done. Don't use money as an excuse to avoid college. That's silly.

too expensive. instead, i will use such amount of money towards the purchase of my house in a year or two. i'd rather pay off a house for thirty years than go to college. after college, what are you gonna do? save up, buy a house and settle down? college=unnecessary stress.