I hate money issues.

[fuchs]

The student fees are here. Next January I'll have to come up with 500 Euro for the following semester. 500 Euro is the amount of money I live a month on. Including rent. So this hurts, this hurts very bad.
I don't think any german university anticipates the demands the german students will make now. I just have to remember how art history is organized, no, wrong, is NOT organized in cologne. I won't have any of that crap if I pay for it. I'm not a bummer student, the last grade I got (just yesterday, for the paper about internet art that I worked on for three days) was an A (german 1,00). I'm hard working, intelligent and motivated. And I still won't finish my studies in the required years.
I'm so fucking angry.
And the Man tells us, financing our studies is so easy, just get a students credit and start your life with a 10,000 Euro debt for only just 7%! Fuckers. As if any of us will get a job that easy. As if we aren't told to start families as early as possible. On debts? No, Sir, sorry, Sir, I think I'm off to New Zealand.

Comments

[allamistako.livejournal.com]

The difference is that the german system is only just adapting to tutition fees, and there is hardly any "support-infrastructure" implemented at the moment. No chance for a stipendium or anything. There WERE no tuition fees when most of us started studying, so none of us has a back-up plan. The future is looking very bleak for a lot of students coming from economically weaker families, especially if you keep in mind that the german recession is getting more and more vicious every week, and it's tough to get a job if you havn't either studied, or completed an apprenticeship in some job or other...

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, which school are you at?

[allamistako.livejournal.com]

The difference is, of cause, that until recently, higher education WAS a right in germany. It's called "Bildungsgleichheit".