or you could just rent this equipment for 0.01% of college costs...
When will University die?
Bentley Walker
Xavier Myers
?? My dude, it's $10K a year to go to my college, and I easily use thousands of dollars a week in what it would cost to rent the machinery.
Luke Anderson
yess yess it's worth thousands of dollars, now gimme money
Henry Murphy
Woah, I'm not the one who invoked the jewery of """the free market""". I'm being entirely serious when I say that the cost of production alone for the many hours I end up using NMR, the various MS machines, the Illumina sequencer, all the goddamn PCR primers I end up slamming through, even shit like lab equipment, fume hood, centrifuges, and then you get into actually obtaining certain samples which require a shitton of breeding and sifting through thousands of potential mutants... Nah man, it's expensive shit, and I would not be able to afford that on my own. Everyone pitches in a bit of money via tuition, so everyone can use the equipment. It's a sensible arrangement, and some of the money is mismanaged by administration- don't get me wrong- but the principle idea and function isn't lost in it.
Jeremiah Thompson
whatever floats your boat buddy
Jackson Clark
Anything tagged for “laboratory” costs exponentially more
Hudson Thompson
>gets destroyed
>"whatever buddy"
Jacob Sanders
That may be the case- there is a lot of cost associated with proprietary bullshit. But even the energy cost is staggering when you consider the supermagnets used in NMR, or the energy required for high thoroughput LC/MS/MS, both for electrospray/MALDI and the quadrupole/ionization chambers. I agree there's a huge problem with price hikes as a result of near-monopolies, but then the argument goes to how smart legislation can keep such things from occurring, and it's no longer about the utility of a university setting. There's no doubt that, especially for equipment that by nature is highly demanding of resources, a communal setting for research is incredibly beneficial for advancing any field of study/knowledge.
James Baker
I'm in University right now you faggot and I can tell you first hand that nothing they offer fuck all for the price tag. Most of the learning comes from YouTube or the textbook.
Isaac Edwards
Listen here, buddy, whenever the internet starts producing better intellectuals than universities, we will notice. As of now, internet intellectuals are just shitty YouTubers with clickbait videos so I guess we are not even close to your dream.