Student loans are literally depressing people

[meaculpa2011]

12. I worked and went to school and...

those were the best years of my life.

My wife and I were both working full time. She was in grad school and I was undergrad. Both at Hunter College.

We lived in one room, four flights up, with a convertible sofa.

We brought our kids to our first home a few years ago and they both described it as a "Rat hole."

It was.

When my parents came for their first visit my mother staggered up the stairs and my father, who grew up in Harlem, said:

"Your grandfather moved us out of a nicer apartment than this in 1924."

It took my wife two years to earn her Masters, then 12 more (on and off) for her Doctorate. We were lucky that we were able to "paycheck" her studies. Took me six years for my degree and at that point I was done with classrooms.

As I said, they were the best years our life, but I can't imagine my kids doing the same.