1. He's got a photo of himself on a 12 century castle in Jordan. He was there "studying Arabic and Peace and Conflict."
2. One year later, he "attempted a summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania."
3. "That was right was after studying in Morocco and before traveling by cargo truck around Kenya, camping and studying ecology and conservation."
4. He got a master's degree in "Social Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism."
It seems like this guy never considered how he's earn a living after he graduated, and then proceeded to make the wrong turn at every major crossroads in his young adult life.
You can use student loan money for "living expenses". I think a lot of "activists" take out student loans so they can be full-time activists for years, figuring they will ultimately find a way to avoid paying.
We need to put colleges on the hook for bad student loans.