Telling people never to use student loans is a way to perpetuate classism. I would say 50 percent of the friends I met at Cornell had families who could contribute nothing to their education. Saying they shouldn't have gone to an Ivy League school is ridiculous. Their minds were the best of the best.

They are all now making ungodly amounts of cash that paid off those "not smart" student loans long ago. I am glad they didn't stick to the community colleges and part time programs they could have paid for with cash.

They were all eating beans when the books got bought though...I remember they would collect the food samples companies would give out about the beginning of semester time. So did I!