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Either You Go Homeless While In School Or When The Student Loan Payments Are Due
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This student from Belarus wanted to go to Columbia University real bad. How bad? She spent a couple of months sleeping in the student center and library and eating condiment packets because she couldn't afford housing. Her splurge: Trader Joe's-brand Cheerios-substitute every couple of weeks. Yes, she had jobs, too, and a scholarship, and it ended well, with her becoming an R.A. (with free housing) and getting an LGBTQ scholarship stipend, and she got A's and B's and, let's face it, if her dogged insistence on getting an Ivy League education is any indication, she's going to do well whatever she ends up doing. But it also indicates how unreasonably expensive college education has become. Also, for what would you be willing to sacrifice like this to attain? (New York Post)
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