I had loans coming out of college..it wasn't a death sentence...
Could that have been due to having a useful major and some actual skills that allowed you to get a real job and make some money?
I had loans coming out of college..it wasn't a death sentence...
or I don't own a cellphone and up until last year had the same tv I had in graduate school 15 years ago. My wife was/is a teacher (she hasn't worked since we had our first child) and had loans as well and last time I checked she was alive as well (and we were not married yet when she started paying off hers).Could that have been due to having a useful major and some actual skills that allowed you to get a real job and make some money?
Four engineering majors out of how many on the team...20? Just curious...how many freshman that your DD started with graduated in four years? Who else had an engineering degree?
Regarding females and STEM being too hard, you're arguing something that I never said nor intended. Again, it's about how parents underestimate the challenges of living away from home for the first time, managing ANY academic workload (much less STEM), and playing a varsity sport. Having personally witnessed several spectacular student-athlete failures, and considering the fact that STEM doesn't make up the majority of college majors to begin with reasonably suggests that adding a STEM workload on top of everything else is unrealistic for most. Not all...not your DD...but most.
None of that has nothing to do with discouraging females from majoring in a STEM degree program because it's too hard. One of my DDs is already in one, and the other will likely go that route as well.