re: #9 mmmirele

Tuition for my last semester at UTAustin (spring 1984) was $212.50 for a full load of classes. Thirty-five years later it’s between $5,000 and $6,000. I had a hell of a time finding the money for books after scraping up the $212.50.

I don’t know how people expect kids to go to college and come out with six-figure debt.

Was much the same for Arizona State (also around $220 per semester) and I was able to manage it on Social Security payments and student jobs washing dishes or in the school library.