[SeekAndFind]

Kelsey Griffith, an Ohio Northern University student who has $120,000 in student debt, counted her tips at the end of her shift at the Red Pig Inn, one of her two jobs, in Ottawa, Ohio.

Much like the mortgage brokers who promised pain-free borrowing just a few years back, many colleges don't offer warnings about debt in their brochures. Instead, reading from the same handbook as for-profit colleges, they urge students not to worry about the costs. That's because most students don't pay full price.

Even discounted, the price is beyond the means of many.

[Leo Carpathian]

Paying that much for screwing your kids heads with commie garbage?

Pricelessssss!

[fremont_steve]

If someone follows “conservative” principals - one isn’t willing to go into such deep debt, even for a college degree! I saved for my son’s college and we chose a university together with him earning a scholarship that lets him get though college with out loans, and isn’t taxing the family’s welfare. It isn’t that hard. My son isn’t going to Harvard either - so what!

[Vince Ferrer]

I am getting tired of this being called a student loan debt bubble, because it is really a college cost bubble. For a generation now, universities have raised costs at a far higher rate than inflation and the average income. This is the natural outcome of that.

University students today at my school are going to literally the same classrooms, sitting in the same chairs that I did years ago. The buildings are built on land that was donated to the university a hundred years ago. There is no justification for these cost increases. The university even avoids outside audits and sunshine laws that other government agencies are required to abide by.

I support no solution that doea not force colleges to cut costs.

[allendale]

As bizarre as it is for a nation to accumulate unsustainable debt and saddle future generations, it is even dumber for individuals for whatever reason to incur such debts. There are always choices. The full ramifications of bankruptcy is becoming more than an abstraction for America.

[Cowboy Bob]

I guess the only people without College debt are the poor - who usually get to go College for free - and athletes.

[Freedom4US]

Does the article ever mention, even in passing, what degree Ms. Griffith was graduated with?

That is key.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This is a certified Strib “Sunday Weeper Piece.”

[ladyjane]

"But when I graduate, I'm going to owe like $900 a month. No one told me that."

Kelsey, you don't sound bright enough to even attend college.

[Moltke]

"As an 18-year-old, it sounded like a good fit to me, and the school really sold it," said Griffith, a marketing major. "But when I graduate, I'm going to owe like $900 a month. No one told me that."

Any prospective employer of young Ms. Griffith *will* google her name and *will* come across this article (perhaps even this FR thread). I don't think she has much of a future in the marketing field.

Why would someone in her position go on the public record with such a stupid statement? She has now twice proven herself an idiot.