Category: politics

The Student Loan Scheme

In my junior year of high school, my parents told me I had two choices: find a full ride scholarship to a private college, or live at home and go to the local state university. I eventually did get a scholarship but recently I’m beginning to understand how insanely lucky I was. Former Stomp Tokyo writer Chris Magyar pointed me to this page titled “The Student Loan Scheme: Gateway Drug to Debt Slavery.” It makes me glad that I wasn’t fully aware of student loans as an option for college.

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