I Could Have Avoided Student Debt, But Have No Regrets

by The Billfold

My parents wanted all of their kids to go to college, but we knew they wouldn’t have the money to get us there. We were a family of academic achievers and knew scholarships would be our salvation; “scholarships,” in fact, was the literal chanted mantra of my last two years of high school. Any time we discussed college, my dad would make me hold his hands and say it with him, slow and deep. “Scholarshiiips. Scholarshiiips.”

And I did it: I got The Big One. Full tuition, room and board at the same college my big sister went to. My parents thought I was all set. So did I.

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