Earth Rider said:
Whatever. Unless you were making 20 plus an hiour you were not paying your full college.
Most jobs back then were 10 to 12 an hour back then: paychecks where 300 to 400 bucks bi monthly:
I never said I was special for doing what I did. If I remember right tuition and rent was something like 12 to 14k
A year: the math didn't work.
The loans helped andpersonally I don't think I would have made it through.
Fact s you had help as the math doesn't work if you didn't
Wow.. ok
First, I wasn't calling you special. You did what a lot of people did and still do. That would be the opposite of special.
Those loans are the main drivers of tuition. That's the math
And I absolutely ****ing did pay my way through school on my own. And so did most of my friends. We worked hard and lived poor. I went to two home football games after my fish year amd can count on one hand how many other sporting or even on campus events I went to. We didn't have sports passes or meal plans or parking passes or any of that. I lived on first street and walked. I bartended on NG and delivered pizzas. I bet I worked 50 hours a week 50:weeks a year back then. I took the minimum possible hours at A&M and the most I could take at Blinn. I was at Blinn the day they opened the Bryan campus.
When I said that was nothing special it wasn't. Lots of people including most of my coworkers did the same thing. Took me five years and a summer. Took my then girlfriend now wife 6.5. Graduated debt free.
Last, I get that it's hard to believe because it is impossible nowadays. And I don't recognize you as a poster, but we don't directly call each other liars without being able to back it up. There are lots of posters on this page that paid their own way including a couple I was in school with that were on the game thread tonight. You can do better than that.
There is really no reason for you to respond. Im moving on.
The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you never know if they are genuine. -- Abraham Lincoln.