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Where did all the money go?

Nov 14, 2016

I'm a junior in college and already I am about $12,500 in debt. That being said, I also have no clue in hell what I am doing.

I just looked at my class expenses and saw that it was costing me $2,000 to take Geology. Geology. The study of rocks is costing me $2,000. I don't even like rocks, okay? You know what, screw rocks. Rocks suck. I spent two hours the other day staring at rocks in class. Why? Because apparently if you don't know how to classify a rock and determine it's age, origin, and how it formed, you're a terrible human being. For $2,000 I am staring at rocks and my self-esteem is decreasing because I still don't know how to classify a damn rock.

You know what else costs a shit-ton of money? Living in Boulder. Living in Boulder is horrendous. The cost to live here is absolutely insane, not to mention the places aren't even that clean or updated. Seriously, $900 a month to live in a sketchy and ratchet college home with alcohol bottles as decorations and clogged sinks is hardly acceptable.

I wish debt didn't suck so much. I wish there was endless amounts of money to spend on endless amounts of goods like alcohol, good food, cool clothes, and pretty decorations. But, unfortunately, there freaking isn't. So we are forced to work sixty hour weeks over the summer as well as at least 20-30 during the school year to pay for all of it. Why? Because being homeless doesn't sound too fun nor does starving. And then, when it's all said and done and we graduate, we will be paying off student loans for the next few decades which is awesome.

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