My college education, Okla S. U. cost $1300 per year. Room & Board was 98 a month. Tuition was 11 per credit hour first year and had gone up to 14 per credit hour by senior year.
We scraped up 1.25 to get a small cheese pizza at Bill’s Italian in Stillwater. YUM! Miss that place!
At the Wet Olive beer was 25 cents. $1.25 per pitcher!
Coffee at student union, 4th floor, was a nickel! And they gave refills!
We didn’t go on expensive vacations, like the rich kids went skiing during spring break. I saw them boarding a bus.
Do today’s young people have ANY idea how to scrimp and save?????
That was my experience too, BuffyT, college and law school, $1500 a semester, I owed $5K at graduation and paid it back. Ate a lot of popcorn and spaghetti during law school, did not go on any Mexican spring break trips or ski trips.
Please tell me what college today costs $1300/ year. Oklahoma St. currently costs $12,500 per year and $9,340 for room and board. https://go.okstate.edu/scholarships-financial-aid/cost-of-attendance/undergraduate-cost/in-state-cost/index.html
Not a lot of jobs for students pay $21,840 per year.