Fucking Study Link.

**pzkpfw** · 22nd February 2008, 17:13

Originally Posted by Mcduck5n

Bike: Many katanas. Some of which go.

Life is all about the choices we make.

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:15

Originally Posted by Tank

well - you could always get a job as opposed to complaining.

Thats how the rest of us survive Is there any reason that students should be any different. Sitting with not enough money for 2 weeks is not a good or smart position to be in.

And as for funding future earners - pfft dont start me on that.

the thing is not the lack of money it is not knowing about it. If i had knowen that the payments were not starting till then then i would have PLANED for it.

Oh and it IS NOT FREE MONEY. We have to pay it back.

**faredce** · 22nd February 2008, 17:15

my post is simple and to the point.....
i hate studylink
plain and simple

**hazard02** · 22nd February 2008, 17:16

Mate you aren't the only one pissed off with them. I don't qualify for an allowance or accomodation supplement because my parents earn too much. Apparently it doesnt matter that they don't help with my rent, or speak to me for that matter (which I have witnesses to verify) and that I'm stuck with dental bills worth more than I care to disclose. I'm claiming everything I can under the living costs (and racking up some lovely debt), but $150 a week is only just enough to pay food and rent. I'm pissed at the fact that I have to cram in around 20 hours of work into an already busy week to make ends meet when theres a shitload of people who are in considerably more comfortable circumstances and get "free money." Chin up though, soon enough you'll have a qualification and we can all bugger off somewhere else to earn the money we dream of making while dining on 2-minute noodles and beans on toast.

/rant over.

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:17

And i will probebly get part time work, heck i like to have money. I may also move a bit closer to the polytech.

**Steam** · 22nd February 2008, 17:18

Originally Posted by Mcduck5n

Oh and it IS NOT FREE MONEY. We have to pay it back.

Maybe you have to pay it back, but I am over 25, and I get an allowance not a loan.

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:20

Originally Posted by hazard02

Mate you aren't the only one pissed off with them. I don't qualify for an allowance or accomodation supplement because my parents earn too much. Apparently it doesnt matter that they don't help with my rent, or speak to me for that matter (which I have witnesses to verify) and that I'm stuck with dental bills worth more than I care to disclose. I'm claiming everything I can under the living costs (and racking up some lovely debt), but $150 a week is only just enough to pay food and rent. I'm pissed at the fact that I have to cram in around 20 hours of work into an already busy week to make ends meet when theres a shitload of people who are in considerably more comfortable circumstances and get "free money." Chin up though, soon enough you'll have a qualification and we can all bugger off somewhere else to earn the money we dream of making while dining on 2-minute noodles and beans on toast.

/rant over.

I am not talking about the allowance, i dont get one either, i am talking about the borrowed 150 a week.

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:29

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Life is all about the choices we make.

Have you seen my bikes?

**JimO** · 22nd February 2008, 17:31

tell you what ducky ill get doctor Cullen to send you a bit of my tax to keep ya going for a couple of weeks..........you can tell the Otago students are back the streets around Nth dunedin are paved with glass and scorched couches

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:33

Originally Posted by jimjim

tell you what ducky ill get doctor Cullen to send you a bit of my tax to keep ya going for a couple of weeks..........you can tell the Otago students are back the streets around Nth dunedin are paved with glass and scorched couches

Yea some tax money would be good thanks...

**scracha** · 22nd February 2008, 17:34

Originally Posted by Mcduck5n

Oh and it IS NOT FREE MONEY. We have to pay it back.

Silly monkey. Don't they teach the yoof of today anything about emigrating to avoid paying loans?

Try being a student in Scotland.....a couple of months studying before finally getting the loan isn't unusual. HTFU

**McDuck** · 22nd February 2008, 17:36

Originally Posted by scracha

Silly monkey. Don't they teach the yoof of today anything about emigrating to avoid paying loans?

Try being a student in Scotland.....a couple of months studying before finally getting the loan isn't unusual. HTFU

Yes but you would know about that so you could prepare...

**SlashWylde** · 22nd February 2008, 17:43

Originally Posted by Mcduck5n

not enough to pay fuck all for a student to live on but they only pay between one and two weeks BEHIND?????? What the fuck are we meant to live on for the first 1-2 weeks of being a student?

Umm, the money we've saved from our summer jobs perhaps?

And they pay one week behind just like any other job, so what's the big deal?

**scracha** · 22nd February 2008, 17:43

Originally Posted by Mcduck5n

Yes but you would know about that so you could prepare...

EH...no. I was 2 years into my 4 wasted years when they first introduced student loans (motherfuckers). They couldn't process them fast enough so there were lots of people waiting for months to get the peso's.

As for too many students now...yes. Courses should be linked to jobs. There's always a shortage of good science and engineering graduates and yet the courses are always under subscribed. Too many job dodgers going for easy $hit like psychology or media studies.

Working and studying...oh my heart bleeds. I knew guys and gals who literally worked the equivalent of full time hours whilst studying and yet they'd rather starve than go cap in hand to mummy and daddy. As the kiwi's keep telling me....they need to HTFU.