But looking back to when I was a sixth-form student, I wish someone had told me about the countless other costs that go with studying at university.
With countless low-cost Chinese fast food outlets to rival its offering in most shopping malls and streets, KFC executives realised the chain needed an alternative and opted for selling traditional zhou rice porridge as a breakfast option.
He's hurled the nation into a ruinous war that has cost countless lives and spawned a whole new generation of terrorists.
When he claims that free trade with China and other countries has undermined American prosperity and cost countless American jobs, many blue-collar workers think that sounds right.
The disgraceful fever, which ruled out all but a trickle of immigration and so cost countless lives, reached its historic apogee in 1944 — by which time the Holocaust was more or less complete.
Claiming that NAFTA and other trade agreements have cost countless jobs, he threatened to impose hefty tariffs on countries such as China, which export a lot of cheap goods to the United States.
Republican presidential rivals and friends-for-now Donald Trump and Ted Cruz savaged the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran at a rally on Wednesday, calling it an incompetently negotiated deal that will cost countless American and Israeli lives and should be discarded by the next president.
Writing for the Guardian, Masoumeh Ebtekar, a vice-president to Rouhani, called on the US administration not to repeat the missed opportunities during Iran's reformist mandate more than a decade ago, which she said cost countless lives in wars in the Middle East.
Alongside the rising needs driven by climate change and one of the strongest El Niño events in 50 years, the humanitarian assistance system is under increasing strain from conflicts, which have cost countless lives and driven millions from their homes, triggering the largest forced displacement of people since the end of the second world war.
The war in Syria has cost countless lives - and it has also put the country's heritage at stake.
