university funding / how do your universities work

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yeah, thats kind of what i was going for. you're allotted a certain amount of credits and if you don't finish your program within that amount of credits, you pay out of pocket. it just seems like it makes more sense to me than a time based thing. someone who works full time just really cant pull more than 12-18 credits a semester and make it work with their work schedule and i don't think that means they should be denied education, which would happen if you were to do the whole "get your degree in x amount of years based on how many credit hours i feel you should be taking"

i think that like. maybe he has a point for fields like medicine? in that the field can change while you're in school. but then again he kind of doesnt... current doctors also need training and education in recent changes relevant to medicine.

and ben i guess you could say its "harder" to have a career in engineering but it isnt really an easy/hard dichotomy that only applies to arts and stem. certain stem fields are WAY harder than others. is it the same level of difficulty to do astrophysics than it is to do like... computer science? throw them into a differential equations class and let me know. thats fair about academia as an institution stifling any real creativity but is that a problem with the fields themselves or does academia need to be reformed along those (and like, tons of other) lines? id say probably the latter

i don't think any education is necessarily wasted. idk if this is true or not but dont art students still have to take gen ed shit? like every university requires at least a calculus class for like every degree i think so they're still smarter for it.

i guess if you stop in the middle you could just owe some restitution? idk how to really deal with that. is it someone just quitting to quit? or was there a legitimate life event that caused it? it would have to be situational to be at all ethical imo. if someone got into a bad car accident and was no longer able to attend school or had to miss a very significant portion for example its not ok to penalize them for that