[speaker001:] all right Rob what do you think about uh choosing choosing a college
[speaker002:] yeah what should I tell my parents huh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] not being a parent but being a student uh I guess I'd say there's there's a lot of things
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh I think they need to provide a lot of guidance during high school
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] preparing them for the college they want to go to and then it's a trade-off between what you know what you got to find out what a kid wants out of college you know is it uh a a social thing or is he looking to make big bucks later with a with a name brand college so to speak
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] things like you know do you go to S M U you want to spend all that money and get that name or do you you know you you just kind of wasting your time to spend all that money if you're not going to use the degree for something
[speaker001:] yeah do you think a child in high school could know what they want in a college
[speaker002:] I don't think in high school you know but I think that's when you should start being exposed to the ideas and start asking some questions
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] having the having you know somebody that's been to college needs to sit down and explain these things to you you know I went in not knowing anything and if I'd a had a little better idea what was going on I'd a probably made a lot of decisions differently
[speaker001:] in what way
[speaker002:] oh I'd probably started sooner and taken courses in high school that would have prepared me better for for what I was going to see
[speaker001:] yeah would you have uh went to the name college or
[speaker002:] probably not in my situation I don't have the money for it but uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] then again it's kind of hard to say where I would have gone had I been thinking about it back in high school
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] I think I don't know to me college was a was a I knew nothing about what it was going to be like it's it's a whole different thing than high school you know just go up and show up and stay up all day
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and you know they tell you what to do and you do it it's kind of a you drop in a couple times a week and it's up to you to to learn it and get it done
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] so I think those are the kinds of things that parents should should let their kids know if they know themselves yeah college is a whole different ball game
[speaker001:] yeah did either of your parents go to college
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] yeah neither did mine so I wasn't really didn't know what to expect so uh
[speaker002:] so yeah
[speaker001:] yeah it sounds like uh like you said sometimes the the name colleges the the large major universities carry the big name and uh if they're private you know like a Harvard or something they're big bucks sometimes fortunately though uh some of the big name schools are in state
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and they're state universities like uh Michigan or you know Purdue or something like that and you can get uh a good education at a good cost you know if if you're in state
[speaker002:] decent price yeah
[speaker001:] but if you know if your kids are out uh uh they want to go to college out of state you know you have to look like you said is the are you are they going to get the education that's going to balance out like here in Sherman there's Austin College and I'm from up north I never heard of Austin College but it's well respected in this area it's private it's very expensive and just talking to people that go there it is uh you know you you know the professors on a first name basis you go over their house quite often and eat and spend time with them and at the major universities you just don't do that
[speaker002:] yeah that's
[speaker001:] you know there's thirty thousand people there and there's couple hundred people in each of your class and and I remember one professor wanted to have people over but people were you know just kind of scared to go over and are they going to be called brownnoser when uh so it's just sort of unaccepted you just kind
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] go to class and you don't usually use the office hours I mean there's not the the relationship you get the degree with the big name on it but you know you don't build that there's a lot of learning that you don't get
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] as opposed to that's what I like about Austin College I didn't know that because I'd never been around any small colleges but uh but there again like you said the big name the big bucks you know you can go anywhere with a
[speaker002:] that
[speaker001:] a degree from Stanford you know and people turn heads but you know a degree from Austin College or something you know where's that well you know it's not really well known and unfortunately sometimes that has to do with their sports program you know
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] if uh you know well some schools maybe not like U N L V you know people kind of think that's a joke you know and you know it's big name and everybody knows about it and everybody wears U N L V shirts but you know what kind of education are these people getting but you know some of the other schools like uh you know North Carolina and Duke you know while they're successful in like basketball I mean people know that they're really good in academics
[speaker002:] right a lot of the schools I think I think I don't know for sure but I think the schools up in the northern states are generally provide a better education I could be wrong about that but my experience with Texas schools has not been all that great
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I've never been to school down here so I really don't know uh I guess there again I mean there's the good and the bad like um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] there seem to be a lot of junior colleges and community colleges down here and up north there aren't I mean pretty much you either go to a technical school out of if you go to further schooling you go to like a technical school like a DeVry or something like that
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] or you go to a university or a major college there are no there as far as I know there are very few