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Sid Ryan: The case for zero tuition
In Ireland, where I’m from, education is free from kindergarten through university. It seems absurd to me that we charge our young people any college or university fees at all, given that their skills and knowledge will propel our economy.
There are 20 developed countries in the OECD that currently charge zero or nominal fees for higher learning. However, here in Canada, free tuition continues to be treated like a radical idea, while the more than 150,000 students who have been striking in Québec for the past 15 weeks to stop fee increases have been chided by politicians and pundits alike for harboring a sense of “entitlement.”
Isn’t it time to consider free and universal access to college and university in the same way it universalized high school education at the beginning of the last century? Isn’t it time that profitable corporations were obliged by law to invest in workplace-based training such as apprenticeship and basic skills? -
San Francisco, CA
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Mac Life
Cleaning up my Mac. Deleted a ton of things that I haven’t listened to or watched in, like, ever.
2 Season of a TV show that I’ve never watched - not sure why I downloaded them.
12 albums of music that didn’t even make it into my iTunes Library. (Half of them are classical albums. Yay cellos!)
750 photos from a wedding that my cousin shot that I have been storing on my computer for him.
200 random photos that my sister was storing on my computer that she has on her computer too.
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Things I will never have to do again and won’t miss:
- Bartend a wedding and pander to drunk people.
- Listen to the bride bitch about the cost of the meals for her wedding especially when she agreed to the price and signed a contract about them.
- Be at work 3 hours before anyone else to let in the florists/cake or stay until 4am. person/mother-of-the-bride/anyone else.
- Listen to a terrible DJ cut music at terrible moments
- Listen to Single Ladies as the bride throws her bouquet.
- Serve people that complain about the meals that the bride and groom chose.
- Cleaning up puke.
- Walking in on people having sex in the table room/back hallway/POS station/PDR.
- interact with our Bar Manager
Things I will never have to do again and will miss:- Dance with Steph behind the bar.
- Working with Steph.
- steal bacon wrapped scallops from the hot box.
- Sangria made by Em and enjoyed by the Vista staff.
- After work drinks.
- Random staff hangouts on the patio after work.
- The pink lady dance.
While I am glad to be done of LAGO, there will be aspects that I miss. But I don’t think that I’m going to miss them that much. It was mostly fun while it lasted. -
So many strange people in my apartment. And it smells like hairspray. And I’m getting a headache.
