Interesting take on the costs of attending Northwestern as subject of a scene between Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Members Lou Glover and Steve McGarrett on this past week's episode of Hawaii Five-0:
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Northwestern was featured on this past week's Hawaii Five-0 show!
Principal member of the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force, Lou Grover (played by Chi McBride) announces to Detective Steve McGarrett that his daughter Samantha (played by Paige Hurd) "Went and got herself admitted to Northwestern."
While the show lead McGarrett attempts to congratulate Lou, Lou gets into a lengthy exchange about the cost of going to Northwestern. At one point Lou, the dad, states, "I won't see change for $150,000 - why that's more than we paid for our first house."
The scene opens with Lou Grover stepping into Steve McGarrett's office at Hawaii Five-0 headquarters. He is holding several cruise and boating magazines. As he hands them to McGarrett he says, "I won't be needing these anymore." He then goes on to lament how his boating, or more to the point dream of boating, days are over. He states that, "My boating dreams now are scuttled." McGarrett counters back pointing out that with that Northwestern education Lou's daughter will land a good job, make lots of money, and he should be able to "guilt her" into getting anything he wants. Lou wryly smiles, and then says, "Yeah, but by then she will be in the same position I am in and she will be paying for her own kid's education."
All in all it is a fun scene relating to the costs of higher education. It reminded me of a conversation that I had with another dad as we shared our "sacrifices" in putting kids through college. He noted that each year when he got the tuition bill, "It was like buying a new fully loaded truck or SUV and pushing it off a cliff."
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From the Rant Board:
Northwestern was featured on this past week's Hawaii Five-0 show!
Principal member of the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force, Lou Grover (played by Chi McBride) announces to Detective Steve McGarrett that his daughter Samantha (played by Paige Hurd) "Went and got herself admitted to Northwestern."
While the show lead McGarrett attempts to congratulate Lou, Lou gets into a lengthy exchange about the cost of going to Northwestern. At one point Lou, the dad, states, "I won't see change for $150,000 - why that's more than we paid for our first house."
The scene opens with Lou Grover stepping into Steve McGarrett's office at Hawaii Five-0 headquarters. He is holding several cruise and boating magazines. As he hands them to McGarrett he says, "I won't be needing these anymore." He then goes on to lament how his boating, or more to the point dream of boating, days are over. He states that, "My boating dreams now are scuttled." McGarrett counters back pointing out that with that Northwestern education Lou's daughter will land a good job, make lots of money, and he should be able to "guilt her" into getting anything he wants. Lou wryly smiles, and then says, "Yeah, but by then she will be in the same position I am in and she will be paying for her own kid's education."
All in all it is a fun scene relating to the costs of higher education. It reminded me of a conversation that I had with another dad as we shared our "sacrifices" in putting kids through college. He noted that each year when he got the tuition bill, "It was like buying a new fully loaded truck or SUV and pushing it off a cliff."
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