re: #260 Justanotherhuman

Student loan debt has surprised both auto debt and credit card debt.

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I think you mean surpassed, not surprised.

Student loan debt is anything but surprising. The entire collegiate system is designed to bilk students out of as much money as possible while they’re still too young to know any better, or too desperate for an education to care. Textbooks are widely known scams and ripoffs that make ‘new editions’ that just shift the chapter order, but nobody does anything about it. When I was going through school, I took a four-year plan and did it in four years — despite the school’s academic advisors spending four fucking years trying to tell me how SUPER HARD AND IMPOSSIBLE it was to do it in four and I REALLY REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER doing it in five — all in an attempt to rob me of another year’s tuition and fees.

I graduated with honors. They had access to my GPA at all times. /spit.