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Originally Posted by Cheese
put your head down and ass up, get on with it and you will make it too.
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Hmm. Well, to some of us, that seems a little extreme.
Anyway, I don't buy into the whole "student loan debt kills activism" theory. By the time you start paying back student loans, you are out of school anyway, and the activism days are likely behind you, loans or not.
Just out of curiosity though, I wonder what kind of debt some of our more "seasoned" posters came out of school with.
My dad paid two hundred bucks a year to go to university in the 60's. A generation (30 years) later, it was $2,500 for me, and now it's more than $5,000 at the UofC. Any way you cut it, that's a pretty big bump.
A lot of people are starting in a deep hole. Maybe they dug it, maybe they didn't, but I do know this -- people in every generation bitch about the geezers in front of them and the slackers behind them.