It's kinda free in Ireland, too. Well tuition fees are free, but you still have to pay about €800 a year for administration (it varies in different colleges). And we have some of the best tehnilogical colleges in Europe... supposedly. Well UL's great anyway. :-D Oh... wait, I forgot - tuition fees are only free to EU members. It's probably the same in Germany too.
I had no choice but to work. Parents were in a bind and I had to help out by working full-time before graduating high school. Now I'm 23, and attending university part-time. I won't have a degree until I'm 30. I feel your pain. The girl situation really agrivates me. Why is it the man always ends up waiting for the woman? Then eventually, if you were to meet someone else, she'll be there for you. Tons of other women on the planet, hang in there :-D
I'm teaching English in Japan... been doing the same thing in the same small city for 3 years, and I'm enjoying it. I wonder to myself sometimes if I should move on to bigger things or move to a new city, but I ask myself, "why bother moving if I'm still enjoying what I'm doing?" The job is sometimes stressful and some major problem comes up at least once a week. But over the years, I've developed a philosophy to deal with the real problem students (or problem co-workers): I'll outlast them. I'll be staying here longer than they will. ;-) Someday if I return or move to another country, I want to continue teaching. Perhaps I could return to Canada and get a full teaching degree. However, I've decided through my experiences that I do NOT want to teach children, so that rules out the public schools...
Hmm, other europeans can't really moan about tuition fees - when i go to uni in sep 06 it'll be £3k/year. Not up to american levels, but friggin expensive none the less. Anywhom, I'm a 17 year old student at college studying for 5 AS levels in Computing Maths Physics Electronics and C19 History, Working 6hours a week on sundays for £4.72/hour, which is pretty good for someone of my age. Also learning to drive Am i happy with it? For the most part yes - although its a lot of work, and is shattering, i keep believing that it'll help me in the future - Planning on studying Elec Engineering, or possibly something combining electronics-y things with computer science-y things. The only thing i really regret is giving up playing rugby a few years back - I'm now pretty porky and don't play any sport - and i wish i did. Anyways, thats me.
I did Maths, Physics and Electronics too. Full sympathy, I mostly hated them (electronics was cool occasionally) and spent most of the time wishing I was doing something easier. You certainly chose the tough ones - which will you drop at the end of this year? I hope you're not going to try and do them all next year :-D
Definately will drop history - i enjoy it but its bloody tons of work. Possibly also dropping computing, and focusing on maths physics and electronics next year.
