Cordelia ,'Lessons'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
ack, Raq! I'm sorry.
Hey Nora? Your marriage damaged cause them there gays get to be hitched and have the same legal rights you do?
No. Though I suspect that the next step is to ban my marriage because we are "non-procreational" which seems to be a big thing for banning the gay marriage. So, my opinion may not count so much!
Oh!
remembers what she'd been going to ask in the first place
How long does one generally stay at University? I mean, what age is a person, generally, when they finish? And what about if they've fucked things up a bit, might they take longer to get a degree? Be allowed to retake a year, that kind of thing?
Fay, it takes folks between 4-7 years to get a bachelor's degree, on average, starting when they are 17-18 years old. I powered through in 4 years and graduated at 21 years old. So, if someone took an extra couple semesters to finish, I would put them at 23?-ish? Maybe?
Hmm. Bless you. So if they went to Europe, first for a year, say, then they might conceivably be 25 or 26 in their last year? Maybe?
Especially if they were kind of ditzy, and couldn't settle on a major?
That would be on the later side, but there are all sorts of things that causes folks to be graduating in their mid 20s. Folks have to work and take classes part time for some of it, or take semesters off...
I don't know if this person is wealthy, but generally financial aid seems to run out after 8 full-time semesters. That is why a lot of people can't use financial aid for summer sessions
Hmm. How about if you held off going to University for a couple of years? Would that work?
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OR, if you'd gone to Uni straight from high school, would you be able to be a member of a law firm by the time you were 26?
If someone went to community college for a couple years, then transferred into a 4 year institution, I think they'd still be eligible for financial aid at that point -the system tends to favor, though not exclusively "traditional" timing of graduate high school-go to college.
But I think that community college attendence, a year abroad, and then a 4 year institution could well conspire to have a regular middle class or low-income family person (ie, requiring financial aid) graduating at 25.
Yep. If you go the straight route, you could do undergrad 17 or 18 to 21-22, law school another three years. So minimum probably 24, 25 more common.
AHA! Law school! Well, that changes everything. And I point to What Brenda Said.