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AndreaCG

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10. College was way cheaper in Boner's day

Reply to Geoff R. Casavant (Reply #7)

Thu Jan 22, 2015, 06:08 AM

Jan 2015

Even private school tuition could be paid for on a student's part time pay and full time summer work, albeit maybe not in four years, though many did. There were also free or virtually free state schools. Today is totally different. Though students on campus also get more perks like vastly improved dining room choices.

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Borowitz definitely gets it....lol. [View all] monmouth4 Jan 2015 OP

That deserves a Pinkie Pie rimshot! hifiguy Jan 2015 #1

Hahahaha, I'll accept on behalf of Andy....n/t monmouth4 Jan 2015 #2

awww, so cute! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2015 #6

Everything is better hifiguy Jan 2015 #8

I think you may just be right about that! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2015 #9

Yes, he gets it.. damn straight! thanks monmouth and Andy Cha Jan 2015 #3

$223,000? That's his chump change erronis Jan 2015 #4

There is nothing to catch, it is all perfectly legal. zeemike Jan 2015 #5

Yep, yep, and yep. And Americans laugh at banana republics. closeupready Jan 2015 #11

That's the odd part -- it didn't have to be that way. Geoff R. Casavant Jan 2015 #7

College was way cheaper in Boner's day AndreaCG Jan 2015 #10

He seems to be the type who, in a certain context, romanticizes and glorifies struggle. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2015 #12