Do you know that feeling of jumping into a metallic, purple catsuit to express your joy through interpretive dance with two backup dancers costumed in money signs? Probably not, unless you too have experienced the blinding exhilaration of paying off more than $200,000 in student loans. Caitlin Boston knows this feeling — it took her 10 years to get there. And it might have taken longer if she hadn’t asked a simple question of her colleagues.
She uploaded her whirlwind celebration to YouTube.
By the time Boston graduated in 2009, she had a master’s in social psychology and two undergraduate degrees in anthropology and American studies. Altogether, she had $147,602 in student loans.
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3 comments:
wow surprised she makes anything with degrees in those fields!
The question should be...was it money well spent ?
She got a master's in something that is very useless along with her undergraduate degrees. Its no wonder she made so little all these years.
Don't get me wrong I think that her paying off the debt without asking for a handout is awesome but to many students rack up debt taking these liberal/social courses and then wonder why they can't get a job in the real world.
I think it's hilarious when people put themselves through hell just to pay off a loan for their education then turn around and defend a system that has let the cost of higher education skyrocket to the point where people have to put themselves through hell to get a higher education.
It is 100% true that the common argument of "just go into the trades" is valid. They are excellent careers and I work in one myself. We cannot ignore that to keep the USA competitive on a global scale we need citizens invested in tech, medical and other scientific fields which require a huge amount of education. We shouldn't be bankrupting them to do so.
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