May 2012
8 posts
The NYT on How Student Debt is Crushing a Generation →
nytimes.com
I went to community college for a year and a half to save money, transferred to a local 4-year school and lived with my parents till graduation to save money, got Pell Grants (serious street cred there, look it up!), national merit scholarships, merit scholarships from my college, community service scholarships from my college, need-based scholarships from my college, and even a textbook voucher for hardworking history majors!, worked at least 12 hours of workstudy a week throughout college and 35 a week during the summer, and got a free ride to grad school at Princeton and Yale. And I still have $900-a-month student loan payments till I’m 44. I am the 99%.