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Cobretti2 on 03 November 2013
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S.Peelman said:
Cobretti2 said:
S.Peelman said:
Man.

Some of you have quite a few games already. I wish my education wasn't so super-expensive. Thankfully it's now as good as over. Pro-tip; Don't study architecture when you want to have money.

Anyway, I need some cash soon, because the list of games I'd like to have is already too long right now .


In Aus it doesn't matter what you study provided you are a citizen. You can get the government to pay for your education, then you have to pay it back once you get a job. Each pay they take out between 6%-8% depending on how much you earn. It takes years to pay off but at least you don't have to pay upfront.

You can sort of do the same here as well, not precisely, but you can get a loan which basically provides you with enough funds to pay the basic cost of your (higher) education. That wouldn't be enough for the complete package though, including books, or in my case the cost of the many models and plotting. Anyway, I chose not to take the loan when I started, because if I did I would have such a huge debt by now that I'd been busy paying it off for the rest of my life!

Downside is, that now I don't have a lot of games to show .


Damn, not sure how big your loans would be but I am guessing huge (assuming you are in the USA).

Here for example when I did my degree, Engineering was $5,000 a year. International students got charged $15,000. So basically the government pays for 2/3rds of it and loans you 1/3rd (i.e. to cover the $5000). This is the amount you have to payback.

Anyhow after CPI ontop of your loan and doing engineering and MBA @ full rate since it was post graduate, I had a total of like $50,000 to pay off lol. I got that down to about $20,000 now.