Consider that late-life tuition is money that won't go to retirement, a child's tuition, an older relative's needs, consumer debt or financial emergencies.
We contemplated life-after-tuition and planned to drastically reduce our financial footprint (sell our house, along with the cars, and divest ourselves of our accumulated belongings), thereby freeing funds for our "senior" year abroad.
He went on: "I've never abstained in my life before the tuition fees debate.
And unlike those in the past, today's immigrants face legal obstacles, and their pathway to a middle-class life involves college tuition.
Cobbling together tuition: life savings, odd jobs and private scholarships Sibri herself is undocumented, having arrived in New York City more than six years ago with her two younger sisters from her native Ecuador.
The other can be a 12-month payment history on something like a utilities bill, auto or life insurance premiums, tuition, or even child-care costs.
He says Urbana-Champaign's nearly 5,000 Chinese students often socialized along class lines: Children of the super rich stuck together, as did middle-class kids whose parents had spent half their life savings on tuition.
Free tuition for life would be more like it, along with free childcare, mandatory paternity leave (men in Britain have recently been granted two weeks' paternity leave) and a Real Men Change Nappies campaign.
In the U.S. they spend $93 billion a year on the basics of life and entertainment, excluding tuition, estimates Kalorama Information, a market research firm in Manhattan.
The average American family carries around too much debt and isn't saving enough, either for mid-life expenses like college tuition for their children, or long-term expenses like retirement.
Meanwhile, enjoy giving oil companies record profits as you drain your savings, your extra money, your kid's tuitions, your life's blood from pump to tank paid for with the meager earnings some other corporation sees fit to pay you.
