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Been looking at classes I want to take.. Again. I do this sometimes. I just can't justify the expense, even though its necessary to make the change I want. The cheapest local option - a community college in town - would cost about $10k for one year. That's all I need, though, just one year, cuz I know what classes I want and I know the masters program I want after that and that one year is all it would take to get in.

The local university made a hilarious attempt at scamming me. I've researched the fuck out of how to get this masters, so their lie was pretty obvious. They told me I'd need to do **_another_** year to get a second bachelor's. They said they wouldn't accept me for the masters if I didn't. Jokes on them, though - I never intended to do their program. I just wanna ninja those classes and then GTFO.

I've been thinking I've been going about this wrong... Instead of paying these other jackasses $10k (and that's the cheap option!), I should just find an English language program in another country. I think this a lot... But I'm still here.
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Kip Ashlynn 2w ago 💬 2

I took my master's prereq classes in Estonia. It was like $300 for a years worth of full-time classes. The rent there is laughably cheap.

This is 100% the best strategy and I'm baffled how more Americans don't do this.

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Comte de Sats Germain 2w ago

YES!! Tell me **_everathang!!_**

I like Estonia. Never been, but shit yes it looks awesome

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Kip Ashlynn 2w ago

Estonia is fucking amazing. You've got to brace yourself for the artic winter of course but once you get through it, it becomes a bit of bragging rights 😅

Full disclosure I did eventually get charged as an illegal immigrant there because I wasn't doing the right paperwork (I was doing paperwork just the wrong ones because I'm an idiot) so try and get more assistance with that part.

Most US institutions are weird about accepting foreign credits so I panned to do my masters program in the EU. Picking Estonia as a member of the EU meant those credits would transfer, but it was still the baltics so much cheaper than Western Europe.

If you pay off your current student loans then you can get a loan for a masters program. There is a list of foreign universities that the US Dept of Education will send loan moneys too, unfortunately not in cheap Eastern Europe so I did eventually go to Ireland for the actual masters program. Western Europe is more expensive than Eastern but still laughably cheap compared to just about anywhere in US cities. And once there I did well enough to earn an Erasmus and the EU paid for my second masters in Belgium.

You're smart and if you've survived in America you're hard working and resourceful. I didn't do well in undergrad but ran circles around my peers doing studies in Europe. They don't get the hustle lifestyle, and it's nice to suddenly feel so appreciated after working so hard all my life just to barely make it work in the US 🤣

My big brother took out almost $200k in loans to get a PhD in claymation in LA and the family heavily discouraged me from going back to school. That's the hardest part, crabs in a bucket people won't get it and support you so you really got to be your own team. But jokes on them because I took a $50k loan to live like a princess abroad for years and came back to my salary tripled because I planned it right 💅

If you have any questions I'm happy to answer more but I'm worried I'm rambling 😅