Axel Slingerland
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I thought it might be something like that if you went to school around the time I did. But 20 years earlier could have made a sizable difference. After I made my last post, I looked up tuition history for Auburn, it's now $6,659 per semester, and $18,011 for non-residents. But while I was looking that up I dug into tuition waivers and was kind of surprised to find out that in 1980, while tuition was only $660 a year for in-state and $1,320 for out-of-state, Auburn did not offer tuition waivers to Professors family members as I have always been told. Today they offer 50% waivers.
So I would assume that my Grandmother paid my tuition. She was like that. When she really wanted me to do something, she always had a way of talking me into it. Of course, I usually did what she wanted me to do because without her my band would have likely never made the kind of money we did. She was an Accounting and Business Management Professor, and she was our accountant and business manager, two jobs that saved me about half of the money we made. Which was good, because as it was when I was forced into retirement, that was the first time I ever heard of a retirement calculator. I had saved almost every penny I made for my retirement for 30 years, but at the cost of living when I retired, I would have been flat broke in 10 years. So as I say quite often for decades I complained about paying the FICA tax every you (the who thing for me, and the people who worked for me only had to pay half and the band paid the other half. But now that I am on Social Security Retirement, I ain't complaining anymore... Though I do get worried every time a new President is sworn in.
So I would assume that my Grandmother paid my tuition. She was like that. When she really wanted me to do something, she always had a way of talking me into it. Of course, I usually did what she wanted me to do because without her my band would have likely never made the kind of money we did. She was an Accounting and Business Management Professor, and she was our accountant and business manager, two jobs that saved me about half of the money we made. Which was good, because as it was when I was forced into retirement, that was the first time I ever heard of a retirement calculator. I had saved almost every penny I made for my retirement for 30 years, but at the cost of living when I retired, I would have been flat broke in 10 years. So as I say quite often for decades I complained about paying the FICA tax every you (the who thing for me, and the people who worked for me only had to pay half and the band paid the other half. But now that I am on Social Security Retirement, I ain't complaining anymore... Though I do get worried every time a new President is sworn in.