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Money and inequality are very frustrating, aren't they? I relate. I had a roommate in college whose parents paid all her rent for her, and she had a job that paid well, and she got twice the grant money from financial aid that I did, because her parents made their living as farmers (even though they had a nice big house and lived very well). But I couldn't get my financial aid application turned in early like she did, so a lot of the grant money was used up by that time and I had to settle for what was left, and my parents didn't help me at all, and I couldn't get a decent job. But I made it through anyway, and when it comes down to it, even if I felt it was not fair, what she got really didn't hurt me in any way. You just have to stop comparing because nobody said life was fair. Do your best with what you have, and let go of whatever resentments you have - you're only hurting yourself with them.

Hey, you are getting the opportunity to go to college! That's better than a lot of people get, right? And it says you must not be useless, since you had what it takes to get where you are.

<font color=orange>"If we are going to insist that people pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, we must ensure that they have boots."</font color=orange>