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Student Loans: Now With Punchlines

Posted in Housekeeping by postacademic on July 31, 2010

Are any of you keeping up with “Last Comic Standing”? One of the finalists, a comedian named Roy Wood Jr., has a clever bit on student loans:

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Yes! It is the for-profit model of education at work! Full refund for material not learned! Or, even better, full refund for jobs not received. Then grad students (who always learn all the class content) can get in on this deal, too.**If Hulu shows the full clip, the student loan part starts about one minute in.

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