How did this grad student buy all these weapons- with what money?

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42. A few notes

Graduate students in PhD or PhD-trajectory Masters programs in the humanities also typically receive tuition waivers and a stipend. Science grad students usually work in labs, and may TA some of the big science lecture classes (teaching the breakout sessions, etc.); grad students in the humanities typically teach 100 and 200 level courses (freshman composition for English grad students, or the 100 level language courses for foreign language and comp lit grad students, for example). In either case, the stipend usually runs between $12,000 and $20,000 / year, where $20,000 tends to be on the science side. You can pick up extra money by teaching a summer class, etc.

The economics are clear, in either case. A graduate student teaching 2 courses per semester of freshman composition generates far more income than expenditure. Consider the tuition waiver and stipend to run about $32,000 per annum, and 22 students per section at $2100 each, for a total of $184,800. Even if we assume that only half these students are paying full tuition (a ludicrously low number), and facilities costs for just the 4 sections runs at $25,000 for the year (a ludicrously high number), you'd still be almost doubling your money at $67,400.