Friday, August 21, 2009

Thoughts on Donating to my Alma Mater

I paid (and am still paying) a lot of money to go to my school, only to get a degree in an industry that may or may not recover (still up in the air) and work in a completely different industry for very little money because I still have a heart.

Yet, my school still would like me to contribute money to it. I get cards in the mail, and they e-mail me, and offer costly events to attend, but most of the money goes back to my school.

So here are my thoughts:

A. If I were super rich, I would not donate to my school directly, because when I attended they invested a lot of money into stupidly-shaped, nonfunctional lounge chairs which they placed on the first floors of a lot of buildings before they realized no one sat on them (how would you?!) and later the chairs disappeared, probably into a classroom no one has ever used. Instead, I would probably create a scholarship fund for some unfortunate sap that has not yet realized how ungodly expensive college is and how he or she will probably not get a good job in their industry anyway, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

B. I should create nonfunctional light fixtures or some other useless but interesting-looking interior design product and sell them back to my school, because I bet I could make a lot of money right back from them.

The Swedish Chef would probably approve of Option B since it's nonconventional, and he seems to be a nonconventional kind of guy as you can see in the video below.


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