msmemory_archive: (wellesley lamp)
msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2009-05-12 12:07 pm

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I hope the administrations of other fine and expensive institutions in this region also read this article in today's Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/05/12/the_harvard_disadvantage/
I never even considered frivolities like Junior Year Abroad. Not with parents who considered it a big issue when I asked for a new winter jacket during my freshman year.
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[personal profile] tpau 2009-05-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
this. at my scholl a year abraod cost the same as a year nto abraod. plus plane tickets but everythign else was covered. and while coats came from thrift stores and furniture came form the curb, education came at whatever price.