Young Bird Owners

[entrancedbymyGCC]

It's actually cheaper to live off campus in most cases.

Umm... that's not been the case anywhere I went to school... not for decent safe housing anyway. But I'm an old fart, so I probably shouldn't comment.

[zazanomore]

It really depends where your going to school. I'm going to be moving to a small Canadian city, where the rent is cheaper than the dorms.

I guess if I was going to school in Montreal or Toronto, I would have to pay an arm and a leg for the bare necessities.

[Natacha]

I went to Univeristy in Trois-Rivières, which isn't exactly a "big city" anymore (take away the paper mill and the University and there won't be much running the town).

Rent was basically the same between rez and having your place off campus (the rez there were like apartments though - 4 people would share the kitchen/living room/bathroom but have their own bedroom). The advantage of living on campus? Well if going back home over the summer (which I did) no need to pay extra rent (yeah!) and everything was already furnished. Downside, I couldn't bring Piper but I would not have got him if my mom wasn't ok watching him while I was away.

[skeetersunconure]

im still wondering wha I will do because my mom says she doesent want to have the bird responsibility i mena if she just had to feed it and water it and clean after it she would but you have to spend so much time with a parrot and she doesent want him so thats going to be a challenge

[zazanomore]

I knew right away when I got my birds that I'd need to take them with me. I would never leave my babies with my family. To my family, the birds are just hamsters with wings.

[a.susz]

try to go to a community college if you can if it comes to that skeetersunconure, you wouldn't want to get rid of him if no one will help you, plus you can get the same kind of education for a cheaper price at a community college, while living where ever you want.

[zazanomore]

Skeeter, I just read your profile. Your just 13! You don't need to be worrying about school yet. You have years to figure out your plans.

[Titanius]

It shows true wisdom for a young person to be willing to plan so far ahead aswell.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

[...] plus you can get the same kind of education for a cheaper price at a community college, while living where ever you want.

Um... as a blanket statement that isn't so. At some, you can't even get a four-year degree, although you can transfer to a four-year school. There can be advantages, some folks teaching at community colleges are there because they are really motivated to teach, but you can also get teachers that couldn't get a "real" academic job and are phoning it in.

I know I'm going to sound like a pendantic old fogie here, but don't compromise on education. No matter what kind of education you are seeking, you want the very best you can get. If you are studying to be a vet tech, don't you want to learn how to be the best one you can be? And if you don't really know what you are going to wind up doing with your life, a broad and deep education is the best thing you can get to allow you to seize the right opportunity when it comes up. You are only talking a few years out your bird's lifespan... as long as you can make good arrangements for them, please don't compromise your future. Soapbox off.

[Brittanyv326]

lol entranced, you always crack me up

Anyways, I'm 18 and I was a lucky kid who got to skip 1st grade and sign up for a 3 year high school program and I ended up graduating at 15. So now I'm a junior at a university. I'm once again very lucky that I found my boyfriend who is just downright incredible, and we've lived together in a duplex (him working full time, me working part time) for a couple years now. So I already had ideal living conditions and was enrolled full-time in school when I got my Sadie. I would recommend to people who will graduate/move out soon to get some roommates in off-campus housing where pets are acceptable. Is it really like that everywhere that you can't have pets in your dorms? I know my school is that way. Not even FISH are allowed! What a shame.