I didn't take out student loans to chase some luxury lifestyle.


They paid for tuition, overpriced textbooks, lab fees, a beat-up laptop, and the rent I couldn't cover during unpaid internships.
I picked up extra shifts, bought most of my clothes secondhand, skipped nights out, and still watched my balance disappear.
Yet some people talk about student debt like everyone borrowed $90,000 for spring break and designer clothes.
For a lot of us, those loans weren't funding a dream life.
They were the price of simply trying to build one.
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