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\u00a0<\/span>***I\u2019m feeling snarky today.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been warned.***<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times ran a story yesterday titled \u201cPlacing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt<\/b><\/a>.\u201d It features the travails of 26 year old Cortney Munna who graduated from New York University in 2005 with more than $100,000 in student loan debt.\u00a0 Nearly 5 years after graduation, Ms Munna still has almost the whole amount to pay off.<\/p>\n

The article neatly lays out the list of corporate baddies who preyed ruthlessly on Ms Munna, laying the lion\u2019s share of the blame at the feet of her alma mater, arguing that the university \u201chad an obligation to counsel students like Ms. Munna, who got in too far over their heads.\u201d\u00a0 Poor Ms Munna was taken advantage of by everyone with whom she came into contact, it seems.\u00a0 The only person who remains blameless in all of this is poor Ms Munna herself.<\/p>\n

I looked up the fees for NYU on their website<\/a>.\u00a0 A basic education at this fine institution costs a commuter student, which Ms Munna was, $40,082 a year.\u00a0 Assuming that she was a perfect student who never had to add\/drop a class, changed majors, or had to retake a class for any reason, the total cost of a four year degree is $160,328.\u00a0 She\u2019s lucky she only owes the $100,000.\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand her surprise at the total amount of her bill.\u00a0 Do they not teach mathematics in New York?<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that Ms Munna went to a very expensive school.\u00a0 She knew the cost; her mother knew the cost, but they both decided to ignore the tally.\u00a0 As her mother said, \u201cAll I could see was college, and a good college and how proud I was of her.\u201d\u00a0 I understand motherly pride, but was there no pause when Sallie Mae refused to loan them any more money because of the extreme debt they had amassed?\u00a0 They charged headlong over to Citibank and borrowed another $40,000.<\/p>\n

Now Ms Munna would like some government agency to swoop in and make her debt go away since she\u2019s unable to earn enough to pay it back.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t I tell you?\u00a0 She majored in religious and women\u2019s studies.\u00a0 What kind of job can you get with a degree in feminism?\u00a0 Something in San Francisco that pays $20 an hour (that\u2019s equivalent to earning $12 in the rest of the country).\u00a0 It just seems to be common sense to me that if you\u2019re going to get a 6-figure education, you should make sure that a 7-figure job is waiting for you at the end of it.<\/p>\n

I find it funny and a little ironic that Ms Munna spent 150-grand and 4 years learning how to hate men, and now is whining to the newspaper about how \u201cthe Man\u201d should bail her out.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"