Support from tuitionbids.com

Sorry about the silence.  It doesn’t mean I don’t care!

There’s been some interesting news though.  Word of the campaign is spreading in odd ways.  It has spread back to Oxford, which has certainly helped (if anyone feels like bugging Oxford’s Said Business School about the project, pelase do!).  Another example: friends of mine got into a dinner conversation the other night: ‘did you hear about the guy raising MBA tuition from 30,000 people?’ somebody said.  My friends: ‘uhhh, yep, we know him!’

All of this is really quite encouraging.  Particularly when people and organizations just up and decided to get behind me.  Such is the case with tuitionbids.com.  They are a new website that seeks to fill a particular need of students by finding them the best student loans out there.  They’ve decided that, well, they understand how hard it can be to fund tuition and they like my unconventional approach.  So they’ve highlighted the campaign on their site, and offered to match the next $300 in donations!

While the path I have taken and the one tuitionbids.com facilitates with students are slightly different, I feel the underlying aims are the same.  It’s all about getting funding to the right people, as they seek the education to launch careers.  If my goal to get to $90K works, I won’t need help like that offered by tuitionbids.com.  But it would have been nice to have an them around about 7 years ago in Canada when I first dipped into student loans!  Whether spreading the word to thousands to ask for $3 or linking up students with the best rates on loans, life is getting slightly easier for students who seek to get the education to fulfill their dreams.

Brendan