We were out of Penn State tuition money and it was time to move. A friend of mine recommended I check out the area’s tuition rates. While I’m not a stranger to Penn State tuition rates, I was surprised to find out that they are much higher than I had imagined.
In the spring of 2014 we moved to Atlanta, Georgia. I was shocked to find out that our area had the highest tuition rates per student in the state. It seemed odd that a place like PA was so expensive since most of the people I knew were living comfortably.
We moved to Atlanta, and after a few months I was back in the big city and I was able to return to the city in the fall of 2014, but not before I had heard about the tuition rates.
We’ve spent the summer in Seattle, Washington, and got our first taste of the internet. In the fall of 2014 we got a chance to use the new Kindle app to get a taste of the internet for our first time. I could talk to anyone in the world on the phone, but I don’t think people would be interested in talking to me.
I was very excited to hear that my tuition would be in the 2.9% range for the summer. So that was really exciting. That is a little lower than I expected it to be, but still better than I could have imagined. I was really excited that I was going to have the opportunity to get online, and I think that is what made the difference. It was a great feeling.
I will be in harrisburg for the summer, but I will be taking classes at penn state. It is less than a five minute commute to class, and I was looking forward to taking classes and meeting people. I was looking forward to meeting people and getting to know them. That didn’t happen. I didnt really get to meet many of my new classmates, and it was sad.
Penn state has a great academic reputation for academics, but there were a lot of people there that were not in their classes, or that didnt have internet access. Theyre not in a position to be giving their students the best education, and that is what students want. It is a shame that Penn state is not offering internet access to their students.
What a waste of time.
We also found a couple of videos of Penn students that were not in their classes, either. The videos were not as engaging as the lectures, and they were way too long. We are not going to blame the videos, but we definitely feel like some of the videos were not of the quality that should be shown on a college campus.
It may not be a big deal, but students are often surprised by how much their professors (and the people at the higher end of the academic ladder) can learn from their students. We’ve never had a student tell us that they learned more about the state of the world from Penn students than from the faculty.