Comments on: My College Changed My Life (I’m Paying Dearly for It)

By: readyornot

readyornot — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:51:32 +0000

@awk @Nick I really appreciate the “how we paid for college” series, it’s fascinating and a financial story with a lot of humanity. I did really like the diversity of the stories which was present in the first round (parents paid, scholarships paid, I chose the cheaper option), and perhaps awk is pointing out the lack of this diversity now.

By: myrna.minkoff

myrna.minkoff — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:56:35 +0000

Do you still dream of being an archivist? I’m currently in school for it now! AND I got a full scholarship. The dream is still possible! Don’t give up! Also, my loans are on hold while I’m in school so it is sort of like they don’t exist?

By: lizard

lizard — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:00:14 +0000

@awk ugh im with you. did they not understand that money came from somewhere that wasnt their pockets? ya gotta pay it back sometime.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:15:01 +0000

@awk Then just scroll past them. Don’t spoil it for the rest of us who still very much enjoy reading these stories.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:31:24 +0000

@Stina I love otters too! They are adorable, and use tools, and my biologist friend told me that when they are young they choose a rock that they’ll carry around with them forever- they just keep it tucked under one arm. Like a pet rock! I haven’t verified that but it sounds adorable.

But at the end of the day, an otter is a giant sea weasel. Weasels are musky and like to bite. There is no cuteness contest between a giant wet weasel and this palm-sized mouse lemur!

#team lemur #there are no losers in a cute animal fight.

By: Bryan@twitter

Bryan@twitter — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:06:27 +0000

“My year at a College That Changes Lives did change my life—though how much more than a year at any other college, I’ll never know.”

But…you should know this, right? You spent years at a public college, so surely you could comment on the difference? I mean, in one sense, we’re arguing about intangibles, but surely the education you completed changed your life too?

By: awk

awk — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:23:58 +0000

Hi Billfold (I called you Hairpin first because I forgot which site I was on! oops),

How many more of these I-went-to-an-expensive-liberal-arts-college-on-borrowed-money-and-am-sad-about-the-debt stories must we endure? Nothing wrong with this one, really, it’s just kind of getting old. We understand: there are many people with college debt and they aren’t thrilled about it.

By: Stina

Stina — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:14:56 +0000

@Michelle “I mean how can you resist?”
Simple. Thinks of Otters and how much more awesome they are.

#starting a pointless, but adorable mammal fight

By: Trilby

Trilby — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:11:11 +0000

@WaityKatie I have a 28-YO daughter who got out of a very messed-up marraige and lost everything- all possessions, gone! She hated giving up her “freedom” but had no choice but to move in with me till she could get a job and get situated again. It took her 4 months. She gives me a lot of credit for my help, emotional help and support as well as the food and shelter and pocket money. It was not ideal — she occupied a corner of my living room — but her stay with me served its purpose.

I understand fully that having a dysfunctional family is not so good, on many levels, and of course no one wants to go back into that situation. I didn’t get that impression from the OP about her family, tho’.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:51:59 +0000

I share your dream of professionally frolicking with lemurs. I mean how can you resist?