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Did you pay for your own education?

I live in canada, and everything is all paid for me by idian affairs or something like that. I have aborginal status here in canada, so my schooling is all paid for. Just like my medicine, hospital visits, doctor visits. And yeah, you get the point.
 
wow. I wanna move to Canada. Hell yes, I paid for my education. Most of it was through an ACT scholarship, but towards the end the classes had to be more specific and I took out loans. My parents never paid for me anything.
 
I live in Australia, and the government has paid for me getting my degree - HECS.

Though, when i finish and earn above the threshold I have to pay this back, plus interest. It's nonetheless immensely helpful. The government also gives me, and im assuming all students, $650 at the beginning of every semester for books etc. Which is more than enough to cover buying textbooks.
 
I am fortunate enough to not have to pay for college. My dad is a disabled vet and because of that my two sisters and I qualify for a free education that is covered by the AmVets financial aid program. The only catch is that I'm not allowed to make over a certain amount of money per year or I no longer qualify. Right now the amount is under $12,000... Which has me living at home :/ with every good there is bad I suppose...
 
That's pretty awesome. The US should adopt a policy like that... Pour money into that rather than obamacare...
 
satricion said:
It is pretty awesome. We also have a public healthcare system twice as powerful and effective than what 'Obamacare' was proposing. Americans have no idea what they're missing out on.
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I have some idea. And, quite frankly, Im tempted to leave the united states because of it...8)

That really depends on if Obama gets reelected.. Lol.
He promised change.. And that's what we have, a bunch change in our pockets because he is to worried about making everyone happy rather than doing what is best for the country... Urgh in a mood today. Hahah sorry:\
 
Im glad that the country i live in has full student loans AND student benefit's/handouts. When you start a course longer than.. i think, 24weeks, maybe less i dunno, you get 1000$ to spend on whatever, and 200$ a week. And the sweetest bit is, is that you can do basically unlimited courses and shit. So you literally can live as a student, all good! 200$ a week is enough to get by, if you find a place with decent rent(a flat) with other students.
 
Well studying kinda no I didn't have to. I did an electrictial apprenticeship which has plenty of incentives. The government reemburses you for collage, gives you $800 a year tool allowance(400 when I started) and gave me a few $500 bonus every time I compleated a year. I think they also give your employer a heap of cash for hireing you as well.

Apperently there is going to be a skills shortage in Aus so they want the youth to fill the gap. I swear though the amount of apprentices flooding in now soon everyone will be in a trade.
 
Dont hate the player, hate the game.

Seriously how can anybody say they hate someone for going to college, reguardless of how they are there? As long as the student works hard I dont care who is paying for it. ALL young people deserve the chance to learn and make something of themselves.

If a students parents shell out the money and they still slack off or just DGAF, then those are the people deserving your ire, but I know alot of rich kids with a great work ethic that totally deserve everthing they got.

As for me im riding the state towards my degree. Parents have been unemployeed for a couple years and I make dogshit money so I get decent financial aid.
 
I didn't pay for my college, but I'm helping out. Working on vacations to pay the college fee, but parents pay for my everyday living during the year. Scholarship is my pocket money, so to say ;)
 
This is a weird topic because I started school with the intention of paying back my loans, but my mother secretely started paying them off on her own w/out even telling me about it.

I got out of prison when I was 22, only having 1 prior completed year of college, and was working a shitty fulltime job at petsmart while doing school fulltime. Most of my money went straight to fines, and I had no real money to save or pay loans back.

At this point I still haven't graduated, but I will on Jan 14th. I'm not working because I've been coming off an opiate addition for the last 3 months, and I think my parents sum up my not working as a result of the bad economy, when its really just my drug addiction.

So in that respect, I fell like a piece of shit. But in another way, I almost feel like I have a disability too. At one point I withdrew from school completely due to my panic disorder, but now for the most part I'm a stable person.

To keep it simple, for as long as I've been unstable, and on drugs (while maintaining Bs or better) my mom has been paying back my loans. At this point in my life from the mere guilt, I now have A LOT on my plate.
I'm getting clean again, I have to find a career and not just some shitty job so I can take over my moms place in paying back loans, all while saving for a place so I can move out (live with my brother now not my parents).

I look at other kids who attend my uni, and most of them are very much entitled. My school is very expensive, and most who attend are of Jewish decent. Its just the area where the uni is located. I remember one girl last semester who's parents bought her a fucking beamer for her b-day, along with paying ALL her expenses. Clothes, food, car, etc. I pay for my clothes, food, insurance, but simply don't have the money for loans.

So I think each case is individual, and its not always about just being entitled or not being entitled. Cause where would I fit? I always planned on paying my loans back, I'm VERY VERY grateful my mom started on her own. But as long as I don't have the money what choices am I left with?
I plan on working again asap this semester cause I'll be clean. And I plan on staying off the opiates for good, so I'm hoping this will be the point that I accept some responsibility in my life and finally "grow up" at 28 years old which can be pretty sad at times to be in this predicament.
Yeh I get things paid for, but it makes me feel like a lesser man... almost like a baby. So its not always as good as it may seem to other people. I look at people who have been on their own since 18, paying their way through college, and its almost like they have some supernatural ability. It really comes down to how well a person can cope with stress. And I'm starting to learn now where I stand. I was going to school fulltime and working fulltime for 3 years doing what I was suppose to, but I hated my life. I hated the "american dream". I hated working for nothing while going to college, and I tried to kill myself with barbituates and xanax at which point I lost my job and was withdrawn from school. Thats how "well" I cope with a hectic schedule I guess. Life shouldn't be spent working to enjoy something that you never have the time to enjoy. But whats the other choice? Be homeless? This world can really suck at times.. or maybe I AM just spoiled who knows.

I'd honestly rather be dead sometimes than completely on my own, as I'd be homeless right now if I was.

I'm essentially struggling just to be a man. Getting myself clean without a single soul knowing, than transitioning into a productive and independent life... which sure as hell aint easy.
 
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