My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial aid money.

Re:My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial ai... by MWil on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:28PM (#5111583)

Forgive my ignorance but isn't financial aid for a very specific thing...as in not just choosing whatever the hell you want to do in your free time but explicitly for the education for which the application was made? Is this legal?

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Re:My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial ai... by codebeard on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:57PM (#5111802)

It's not illegal, but I am of the opinion it is utterly wrong, but that's another discussion for another day.

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Re:My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial ai... by jetti on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:16PM (#5112634)

I have a feeling it could get some jail time. You are supposed to report dropping of classes to the financial aid office so your aid can be modified. Not doing this and also just keeping the money may be grounds to be hit with a fraud charge. Never the less, it isn't something I would want to risk.

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Re:My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial ai... by lukethomas on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:09PM (#5111877)

I know of classmates who use financial aid for Spring Break tickets, vehicles, booze, and rent. I'm actually considering polling students at my school about it.

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Re:My College Experiment: Building a drone with financial ai... by MWil on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:06PM (#5112571)

rent, vehicles, and living expenses are fine (so even booze to an extent) but Spring Break and this here seem far past the grey zone

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