on college
My interviewer today graduated from Stuy. And in the end I asked her her thoughts on financing an undergrad education. And she told me her college experience was amazing but she had to take out significant loans and when she was choosing her school, she thought that it’d be okay to take out these loans because she’ll just work extra hard later to pay them off- which is what a lot of people think now. But she told me the reality is it’s extremely difficult to pay and she has all this debt looming over her and it’s just not a good feeling. And she tells me that at Stuy you’re kind of made to think that you’re better than certain things, or certain people, to different extents in each person, but it’s extremely true. And she tells me I’ll do great things if I end up going to Hunter, which is what her parents wanted her to do (which she chose not to do). But you miss out on so many things. She tells me it’s definitely different than going to a small liberal arts school away from the city- something I long so badly to do- because at a CUNY, almost everyone is from nyc, there’s more of a focus on grades from what I hear, and because of the 3.5gpa requirement. But you graduate debt free and can pursue anything you want after graduation because you don’t have any financial burden. And idk, I just don’t know.
