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January 09, 2007

Welcome to 2007!

Last night I was watching the Cosby show (and yes I did just start my first journal entry in months with 'last night I was watching the Cosby show') and I was half asleep when I heard Bill Cosby say, "Bennington is the most expensive college in the country right now!" Right away, I snapped to attention, because I have interest in both 1) Bennington, 2) the cost of college, both of those for reasons it would take me way too long to describe.

Anyway, I'm not going to describe the whole scene on the show, but one thing did literally make me say, "OUCH!" out loud. Following saying that Bennington was the most expensive college in the country, they added that the cost of tuition plus room and board was $17,000. That was the MOST expensive college in the country.

Okay, so that episode originally aired in September 1987, but still. Wow.

Because I'm both insane and a nerd, today I decided to compare that to the current most expensive college, George Washington University. Their tuition plus room and board? $49,290. That's almost enough for three full years at Bennington in 2007. And just for curiosity's sake, Bennington, which is 7th most expensive this year, now costs $43,070. And by the way, Oberlin only missed making the top 10 list (which is based on tuition only) by $914. That's just... Great.

Basically, what this tells me, is that my children better be interested in going to trade school. Hope they all want to be mechanics!

Posted to Mindless Entertainment & Miscellaneous & Oberlin at 02:03 PM | Comments (6)