I got a full ride scholarship to a university. I am from a poor family who cannot help me financially with anything. I have to work 30 hours a week minimum while in college, to pay for being alive and also for non-optional fees with classes like chemistry lab fees and stuff (should be included in the tuition but I digress). Manage to not take out a loan for 3 years, however suffered a mental break down from all the stress - especially being lectured by professors that school is my job (how am I to eat?) and the rich kids looking down on me for needing to work so I couldn't attend study groups and stuff. Lost my scholarship because I didn't know there was a limit on how many classes you could drop (I dropped so many because I was obsessed with keeping my scholarship and getting A's), took out loans for one semester, quit school because it was too much stress. I have since been fucked over so many times with health insurance.

However I am happy/lucky that I was able to get pretty decent jobs with no degree (all that experience I had from high school and college really really paid off), and financially I feel much better off than most people who graduated college and are paying off debts.