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Originally Posted by rubecube
When were you in school?
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Graduated last year.
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How much were your living expenses at the time?
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Outside of tuition, around $500 a month. Admittedly, my parents would help me out with groceries but it's not as though I wouldn't have been able to afford that myself if need be.
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Tuition isn't the only thing that students have to pay for. I'm a student and I make ends meet but I've been fortunate to receive some help from my parents as well. The amount for student loans I was approved for would not have been enough to pay for tuition and living expenses, even with a part-time job.
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The big thing is, kids need to start saving money before they go to University. Things are pretty manageable when you've got a decent chunk of money sitting in your savings account but I knew lots of kids in high school that either spent their pay cheques as soon as they got them (on some very none essential things, btw) or didn't even bother getting a part time job. Frankly, I have no sympathy for these people and I don't see how it is everyone else's responsibility to make sure that they get to go to university.
At any rate, I've heard that in countries where post secondary education is paid for by the government, they don't even see significant increases in attendance, so what are we really accomplishing here?