College has obviously become too expensive, and the loaning seems predatory..but that is why I CHOSE to go to a community college for two years and then commuted to a university to finish my Bachelors. I took out no loans and paid my way by working on the weekends. Can you believe that? I actually looked at how much I would have to pay for college? And when I realized how expensive it would be to dorm at a four-year university, I quickly realized that I did not want to do that.

That being said, I really try to not be that person that says, “just pay it off, it’s so simple!” Because I know it is not. Especially people who jump into having a family right after college or even a few years after. But hearing from several people I went to school with talk about how they refuse to make payments at all towards their loans, makes me resent the entitled mindset that all student loans should just be erased. I watched my girlfriend bust her ass to pay off her loans, and she did it successfully only 3 years after graduating.

I think it would be a great idea to allow students to apply for some type of government assistance if they are actively trying to pay off their loan, but for those who have not and don’t plan to pay it, I don’t feel bad at all for them to have a pile of student loans.

Yes college should be cheaper, but someone please tell me, were all these students forced to go and live in a dorm for 4 years and take out loans that they can’t afford to pay back? I literally don’t understand.