Financially worse off?
I myself am a university student. I'm just gonna say that i'm lucky as hell, and leave it at that. However, I don't quite get the whole debt thing *waits for abuse*. The SLC has given me a loan. Under certain circumstances it would have given me a grant as well, and a higher loan. I am going to leave uni with 24 grand of debt (four year course), which *I* will pay back when I begin to earn a reasonable amount. If I never earn that amount, i'll never pay it back.

Net, with degree level employment, I expect to end off better financially, and if not at least i'll have had a pretty good time.

And there are people here who get the full loan amount, are not supported by their parents and who temp full time in the holidays to top up their living expenses - and I have yet to meet anyone without at least a part time holiday job. (Well apart from about three of the 'my dad owns your dad' types.)

Apart from that, great post.

And damn, im jealous of your drunken logic.
(Foxinsockssir, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 22:41, Reply)