Michael Stephan:"We graduate with $150,000 in student loans"

What's the most important issue to you in this election, and why.

Michael, a star tuba player and grad student at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA thinks education and the rising student tuition is the most important issue in this election.

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[RainbowSeizures]

Wow alot of you people are such jerks, this guy has wonderful talent. Musicians are so underrated... I mean, they really work their asses off and for some people to just say so openly that it's a waste of time?

You go practice an instrument for over half your life and maybe you'll have some respect for a music major. Fucking talentless asscracks.

[jakewayd]

This guy's a moron. A fool and his money.

[QueensDynasty]

@Rockynurse Great, if that's your opinion, then people shouldn't bitch and moan about attending a crappy college, and then graduating with 5-6 figures in debt with little to no hope of paying it off

[pjohn519]

I played the sousaphone in the Marching Illini Band back in the late 1970s and remember it took many years to pay off my student loans. I now have two children who are paying back their student loans which are much greater than they were 30 years ago. I have discovered some ways to help them pay off their loans faster. But it is still painful, especially in our current economy when it is difficult to get a full time job even with a college education.

[BrianReport]

weird

[HotVideoZone]

wishing they had chosen a nano scientist to address this concern instead of a musician, because they're having the same problems.

[OnlineDatingMatch]

sad

[contrabassbob]

Bottom line, you choose your future and tuba playing is not the most profitable one, ESPECIALLY in the "legit"/orchestra field (I don't know why so many brass players think that's a reasonable future). Want a future in music? Join a military band. How do you think I paid for my contrabass trombone? :)

[avataz]

@Rockynurse Yes I work for a public accounting firm. My advice is start out with a smaller size firm just to get experience on your resume and then after 2 or 3 years try to apply to a Big Four. I don't know if they are hiring right now, but that's my advice.

[Rockynurse]

@avataz

Do you work in public accounting or for a company? If I don't get the job I want when I graduate I am debating as to whether or not I should go to a good grad school like USC or USD. Think a masters in taxation would give me an upper hand when interviewing with national firms?

[avataz]

@Rockynurse Just remember man. Those people will be unemployment line while you'll be raking in the dough. Fuck them

[Rockynurse]

@avataz

Yep it really is irritating sometimes. My cost accounting class is next to an upper division "gender studies" class. It irritates the hell out of me when my stressed out ass is taking a massive exam and crunching some numbers and you hear the professor in the other room cracking jokes every 5 minutes to the applaud of the "gender studies" majors. I took a few upper division liberal studies courses for my general eds and they really are a joke. 4 hours of work a week for up div LMAO