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BadSamaritan
May 2, 2008

crumb by crumb in this big black forest


Hey, I went to a CUNY on the Pell Grant, because I was an independent student with very low income. My student loans and $12/hr part time retail job covered my expenses, and I went full time and sprinted as fast as I possibly could toward that high ROI degree (a licensed allied health field). I would be in a much worse situation if I hadn't gone full time- taking out the loans to finish faster was absolutely the right call.

Like some of the other posters have said, borrowing money for school isn't, by itself, a bad thing. It is bad if you don't finish your degree, or don't leverage it into a 'real' job.

CUNY is good and extremely affordable if you pick a major and get a paid summer internship so you have something worthwhile to apply to real jobs with. Baruch has a pretty strong hiring network in the city if you don't goof off there.

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