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A LETTER
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College can often be associated with three concepts: the lack of a social life due to school work, the abundance of a social life (and complete disregard of school work) and the ever surmounting feeling of tremendous debt while being a “broke college kid.” Every college student can claim two out of three of these concepts. If you collect all three, props to you for a crazy college career. We all tip our hats to you. But one thing out of all possible combinations of the three concepts remain constant: debt. If the debt a student accrues throughout the course of a college career could be physically felt, that student would be crushed 100 times over. How do we go about paying for school? How do we mentally prepare for tackling our debt? How do we begin doing something most college students have no knowledge of? What is a Stafford loan? What does subsidized and unsubsidized mean? So, answers to these questions are out there. If you find them, let the rest of us know. Skye Donaldson Mass Communication Senior
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