Future Shop has the identical computers listed at $2,199.99 brand new! Not to mention the fact that we’ve been using them for eight months and have put down an incredible $1,750 on them through leases.Īll these numbers were incredibly difficult to come by. Secondly, the buyout cost is an earth-shattering $2,124.36 for ‘08 graduates. They arrived several weeks late and have had countless bugs and system set ups that are complete annoyances (we were not able to set any preferences until last week! and it took my computer about five minutes to wake up from its “sleep” before I could write this column). For one reason, they have been nothing short of disasters and a great burden on me and my fellow pupils. I, for one will not be buying this laptop.
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However, the college never gave us price until we rigorously approached them several times while voicing complaints about numerous other problems that were occurring with our “brand new computers.” College staff should be trained and civil enough not to dangle a Mac laptop in a student’s face like a farmer dangles a carrot in front of a mule.
The college uses the word “lease” when referring to the enforcement of these learning tools – that is incorrect they were in fact “renting” them – because if it were a lease they would have been able to take them, for a cost, home after graduation.Īt the beginning of the semester the communications department mentioned several times that we could finally purchase the MacBook Pro’s when we graduate. The thousands of dollars my predecessors put towards these machines was practically flushed down the toilet. If you lease a car you’re always given the option to buy it when the lease runs out, but former journalism students were not given that right. We, the graduating class of 08, will be the first students ever to be given the option to buy the computers that we’ve been leasing for up to four semesters. What’s even more disturbing than the cost to rent these computers (875$ a semester – a number that does not appear on any fee statement sent to any student) is the complete lack of transparency and mountains of red tape the college has sent up against students finding out how much money they’ve put into these computers and how much it would cost them to buy it out. The college staff likes to refer to this lease as an “Ancillary fee” but students could care less what it is classified as.
I was aware there was a laptop lease involved with the program but I did not know that it would cost that much including tuition. I, like I’m sure other Journalism students had no idea we would be paying that much for college. Most students in other programs find it shocking when I tell them that we, Journalism students, pay $5,458.40 a year here for tuition at Mohawk. This hits the pocket hard – $2,729.24 a semester as a matter of fact. In my program (Journalism Print and Broadcast) it is mandatory to lease laptops from the school.