[rktman]

Hmmm. Well, you don't NEED to finish in 4 years or less. Perhaps you could even get a part time, uh oh, JOB? You know like at McD's or something. (They'll help pay for part of your college in some cases.) Take some courses at a Community college before going full bore. IN STATE schools instead of FEELING you NEED to go across the country. Perhaps an ROTC program. If you're hungry and homeless, you're doing something wrong. But of course you know better than us dumb old white guys, right?

[Deplorable American1776]

Homeless college students? The colleges around here (even the community college) have apartments for students. Hungry? Why is the Starbucks and Panera Bread at USF crowded with students and why did Publix open a supermarket on the USF campus? I doubt that they are giving away the food...

I'm not sure but I think this is Bull 💩... 😊

[Eagles Field]

If ever there was a thread on the blueprint on how to assemble the American Dream, this is it. If you’re looking for the backbone to conquer the world, you’d do well to ask a Freeper. You might even find a hero or two. All of which begs the rather naive, flirting with arrogance, question I want to ask the rest of the world that has been rolling around in my head for the last few weeks. Why can’t you asswads just be more like US !

[Maris Crane]

Here are some thoughts:

l. Do not go to college straight from high school.
2. Get a job. Low level, several low level, medium level,
just to get a feel for working and for GETTING PAID.
3. Start going to night classes first.
4. Research what you would like to do, see if you are good at it.
5. Employers often help with college expenses.
6. Last, but not least. When you start college at 25, you have the added advantage of being able to talk to your professors with some maturity. The teachers really take the young students to the cleaners because they are timid.

[Mastador1]

Here's an idea, why don't these poor hungry and homeless college student put their asses to work just like people did when I was younger and going to college. One of the worst things in the history of America was the student loan bullshit. Hell I bet if these poor students actually spent their loan money on what it was intended for instead of boozing, partying and buying crap that has nothing to do with education.

In the early to mid seventies I worked with at least twenty young people that were working five days a week and paying their own way through college a somehow they all managed to succeed becoming teachers, lawyers and other professionals while working and not running up backbreaking debt.

[Hulka]

Let’s see. . .lefty college administrators and communist instructors had their salaries skyrocketed causing skyrocketing tuition rates and this is ignored and all this wailing and gnashing of teeth over college debt completely ignores the true reason why college costs so much. So blame is pointed everywhere but at the colleges and we hear all this wailing about how we, taxpayers, need to forgive college debt for their out of control socialism/communist policies and bloated costs.

[trebb]

MacDonald’s needs to raise minimum wage to $45/Hr. and give these college kids hours that fit with their schedules....

[Bon mots]

[Buckeye McFrog]

How the rising cost of college is actually forcing some students to make hard choices.

Well, DUH! LIFE is about learning to make hard choices!
Success is defined as the ability to learn to make hard choices which lead to the best outcome.

The coming Snowflake Nation is Doomed!