[achievingApathy]

Maybe someone just needs to explain this to me like I'm 5, but no one forces someone to take out $125,000 in loans to go to a private college. I graduated from community college and then went to a state four-year for my degree, and I came out relatively debt-free.

I don't want to force people into a lifetime of poverty because they made one bad financial decision at the age of 19, but I took out loans, too. I also think it's part of the college experience to eat Ramen every night for a three weeks and scrounge for beer money so I might be a bit biased.

The money that I borrowed, that I paid back to my school (as promised) didn't go sit in some fat cat's bank on Wall Street. My school turned around and loaned that money back out to the next round. So it's incredibly selfish I feel for anyone to think they are free from any responsibility to pay back their loans because they were duped at the expense of someone else who now might not get the chance to go at all.