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On November 09 2010 17:26 aNDRoM wrote:
He said "thousands of dollars". He mentioned being able to pay for 4 classes, which according to the USC tuition page, is between $1300-$1800/unit (I believe he said "credits", and I don't know if 1 unit = 1 credit), so I'd have to guess at least $5k, which is truly awesome.

(I feel a little creepy looking up the info, but Day's smart enough to know that by mentioning that he could pay for his classes upfront, someone could guesstimate the donation amount. Day, mods, feel free to delete this post if you don't want that this info posted.)

On November 10 2010 02:02 Ohdamn wrote:
just wanted to say it's pretty awesome you actually saw the criticism that there really was no good old daily for a while AND take it to heart!!
love you

edit: what was the reason for all the huge donations?!
i can't imagine he actually asked for donations?

I bet he could couch-surf around the world for free if he wanted too. SC2 players are everywhere, well at least when there's a internet connection.. =)

On November 10 2010 03:34 polarop wrote:



OMFG!!!!! This is such a great idea. If he get some time on his hands and isn't to busy with studies he should just go on a worldwide trip for like 6month -1 year couch surf through all the SC2 nerds'homes and do dailies out of their living rooms!!!!!!!!!!

This would be like one of the sickest things an Internet community could pull off and would just show how fucking great the SC2 Community is!!! And we would get to know how all our fellow nerds live on the other side of the world :D

Day9 if you decide to do so you can crash here whenever you like!

Day9 for SC2 World Domination Tour 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, the flying costs should be sponsored somehow, but please post what you guys think of that?

On November 10 2010 04:11 aNDRoM wrote:
@ffdestiny, I know classes are normally 4 credits, I just wasn't sure if credits=units, and I didn't think that people would have donated over $10k, so I went conservative with my assumptions. I didn't know how many people new about this fundraiser from Reddit (it was mentioned a few times on this thread, but that could have easily been missed by most people). However, I shouldn't be surprised. If he sometimes gets over 10k viewers, and if even half of them donated $5, that'd be $25k.

On November 10 2010 02:14 ffdestiny wrote:


He's taking 12 units, or 4 classes, I believe. That's around $16,320 dollars. It's around $1,360 dollars per credit hour. Since there are other fees, and he still needs to pay rent, have food and everything else, I'm going to estimate that it's around, at the very least, $26,320 or more dollars total for tuition+everything else. I'm guessing that he pays rent/utilities with his "casting" money, so I would estimate that he received around $18-20,000 dollars in donations (food costs added in).

Source: http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2010/tuition/
Graduate Student (15-18 units) 20,192.00
unit basis 1,360.00

Edit: Whether he is taking 3 or 4 classes, I'm not totally sure, with 3 classes it's $12,240 dollars. I would estimate then he received around $15,000 dollars in donations.

On November 10 2010 02:15 Zocat wrote:


I think the idea originated over at reddit (and spread)
They wanted to do this for the daily 200 (milestone daily) just as a thank you. I think it was rescheduled for daily 203 as day9 mentioned that would be the celebration daily but as it wasnt I kinda lost track.

So no - he didnt ask for donations. People just donated out of free will


Edit:
Here's the original (to my knowledge) thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dq0ym/day_9_daily_200/

On November 10 2010 05:20 VWXYZ wrote:
next time :O! Could he warn us that he gets those kind of donations?! I'm just an archive viewer (Danish, so live isn't really an option due to time) and don't really follow the thread either. I know a lot of people like me, and I would love to have donated! But I didn't even get the chance ):

and coach surfing :O F-yeah! He would just post on twitter a while in advance and be like: "I'm going to ____ anyone got a coach?"

Also, Funday Monday theme? I'm pretty addicted to those at this point? Anyone? Did he post anything on twitter?

On November 09 2010 17:26 aNDRoM wrote:
He said "thousands of dollars". He mentioned being able to pay for 4 classes, which according to the USC tuition page, is between $1300-$1800/unit (I believe he said "credits", and I don't know if 1 unit = 1 credit), so I'd have to guess at least $5k, which is truly awesome.

(I feel a little creepy looking up the info, but Day's smart enough to know that by mentioning that he could pay for his classes upfront, someone could guesstimate the donation amount. Day, mods, feel free to delete this post if you don't want that this info posted.)

On November 10 2010 05:30 Erandorr wrote:


Where did he talk about that?

On November 10 2010 05:20 VWXYZ wrote:
next time :O! Could he warn us that he gets those kind of donations?! I'm just an archive viewer (Danish, so live isn't really an option due to time) and don't really follow the thread either. I know a lot of people like me, and I would love to have donated! But I didn't even get the chance ):