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Ideally you don't need to saddle yourself with debt to go to college.
by Denvercoder9 4y ago
Ideally you don't need to saddle yourself with debt to go to college.
- wanderingmoose 4y agoI strongly agree with you. I went to berkeley in the 90's. Tuition was ~$2k (usd) per semester. I lived in a shared house for $300/month. I paid for everything out of pocket by working for a campus job (which paid $8/hour vs $5/hour minimum wage). So I was lucky and walked away with no debt. I feel for the current generation that will need to take on debt if they feel they need a college education, and I know the amount I've been saving for my kids. I can't change anything about the monetary policy that allowed student loans to be so large. But I do try my best to do outreach and recruiting from candidates with non-standard backgrounds and who didn't come from one of the big CS schools.