3. TIL a very frugal librarian, the late Robert Morin, left millions of his life sa...

TIL a very frugal librarian, the late Robert Morin, left millions of his life savings to the University of New Hampshire where he worked as a librarian, then the University spent $1 million dollars of that money on a scoreboard for a new football stadium.

Uh...dude. college used to not put people into crippling debt. Normal people could afford school if they got a job at 16, and even if they didn't, the loans weren't outrageous like they are today.

Competition was way broader across class lines. Today, I'm fortunate enough for my parents to afford my schooling, but the truth is the field of students I'm competing with is much narrower. There are plenty of poor people who are probably smarter and harder working than I am who, for them, higher education is either not an option or leaves them with massive expenses after graduation.

Modern college is a racket. It didn't used to be this way, and we should all be pissed.

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