Let me get this one sorted... A thirty-something married couple with jobs looking for a loan for a home is a little too much of a risk for you to part with any of your ill-gotten usury blood money, but a seventeen year old flip-cup enthusiast with an earnest little boner and tickets for Jack Johnson next week seems like a good bet for that 150k? This kid has no idea about how much money that is.
I wish someone had told me what a colossal waste of money I was getting myself into. Sure I had a few laughs tossing around the old frisbee on the quad at the over-priced north east private school I went to with people from all over the (different parts of Connecticut and Long Island) world, but somehow I think I could have done the exact same thing for like $12 a month at the public university. A hundred thousand plus dollars might as well be a hundred thousand fairies and unicorns, because that's exactly how real it seems at the time. A hundred thousand dollars seems just as tangible as the second coming of Jesus fucking Christ, which makes sense, because that's gonna happen long before I ever pull myself out of this debtor's prison. Thanks for mowing the lawns real nice outside the science lab every other day though. I guess I'll always have that.
I wish someone had told me what a colossal waste of money I was getting myself into. Sure I had a few laughs tossing around the old frisbee on the quad at the over-priced north east private school I went to with people from all over the (different parts of Connecticut and Long Island) world, but somehow I think I could have done the exact same thing for like $12 a month at the public university. A hundred thousand plus dollars might as well be a hundred thousand fairies and unicorns, because that's exactly how real it seems at the time. A hundred thousand dollars seems just as tangible as the second coming of Jesus fucking Christ, which makes sense, because that's gonna happen long before I ever pull myself out of this debtor's prison. Thanks for mowing the lawns real nice outside the science lab every other day though. I guess I'll always have that.
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I made a wise choice and went to a state school for undergrad. Current debt for undergrad: $150/ mth. Not bad. Grad school killed me. Thank you Emerson for that piece of paper that will cost $80K before I am done paying it off. Total higher education price tag $648/ mth. This is more then my rent. And I am pretty sure I could get a nice car (or two) for that monthly payment.
Emerson fucked me too. I suppose I was like 22 at that point and probably should have known better that another 30 grando for grad school was a waste, particularly for "Creative Writing" but if I knew shit about numbers I wouldn't have been interested in creative writing in the first place now would I?
"You blew 150k on an education you could have gotten in $1.50 in late fees from the library"...
Ha. Love that bit. Good ol' Billy Hunting
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Being sick and having face-boning allergies are both on the list, so I guess I'm gonna just have to chalk up my lack of productivity the past few days to being a giant pussy.
Smoking your way through a cold is a good way to show the sinuses who's boss, right?
Luke, what are you talking about? Emerson opened doors for me that I never dreamed of: making $9 an hour selling graphic tees to 28 year-old skrillionaire parents in Park Slope and then watching Jabber Jaw with their 6 year-olds while they are out having the fun I am definitely not having. With that kind of income, I should be paying back that $28,000 (and that's just the loan that is in my name, btw) in no time.
You make all of that sound like a bad thing.
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