Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Will Never Forgive Me
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If I knew I wouldn’t have to pay my debt, I’d have chosen a more interesting major and a better school.
The bill was $19,714 for tuition, room and board for my freshman spring semester at the University of South Carolina. Although I thoroughly enjoyed my short stint as an out-of-state student there and became a loyal Gamecock fan, I doubted that each semester was worth the price of a Honda Civic.
I’d already passed up the opportunity to attend the more expensive and more prestigious Denison University, a private liberal-arts college in my home state of Ohio. Denison, I thought at the time, was too expensive. But now the same seemed true of South Carolina. So I transferred to the University of Toledo, a public institution much closer to home, where I studied accounting. Accounting isn’t my passion, but like a Honda Civic it’s safe and reliable.
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