The horror. Not one, not two, but three degrees... two of which were graduate degrees. It is not typical to pay for a graduate degree. If you have any reason t

The horror. Not one, not two, but three degrees... two of which were graduate degrees. It is not typical to pay for a graduate degree. If you have any reason to go to grad school, you have a scholarship, a grant, or a teaching workload, or some combination of those. The article's author (Jordan Weissmann) seems completely unaware of this dynamic, even as he grudgingly acknowledges in an edit that the tuition for the three degrees he is so shocked about is not actually part of the debt. It's true that defaulting on student loans is probably not a good plan, but it's also true that this article damages its point by opening with an unjustified, moralizing attack on Lee Siegel's educational career.