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Are students living a life of luxury?
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This article annoyed me. Sorry to link to the Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219169/Hard-Students-living-life-luxury-says-professor.html
It's a few years since I graduated but I'm sure things haven't changed that much. Sure, there are some wealthy students but I would say that most students work in their free time - use their overdrafts and loans to the maximum, and are quite frugal. I know when I was a student that I would often walk rather than get the bus, and use student discounts, and was (and still am) a real bargain hunter.
I don't think this guy has any right to judge. How does he even know someone is a student just by looking at them? People often presume I'm a student because I'm young (well -ish ) and don't dress very formally, but I actually work full time.
Are you a student? Do you live a life of luxury? If so, how? Or is this guy really out of touch with the average student?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219169/Hard-Students-living-life-luxury-says-professor.html
It's a few years since I graduated but I'm sure things haven't changed that much. Sure, there are some wealthy students but I would say that most students work in their free time - use their overdrafts and loans to the maximum, and are quite frugal. I know when I was a student that I would often walk rather than get the bus, and use student discounts, and was (and still am) a real bargain hunter.
I don't think this guy has any right to judge. How does he even know someone is a student just by looking at them? People often presume I'm a student because I'm young (well -ish ) and don't dress very formally, but I actually work full time.
Are you a student? Do you live a life of luxury? If so, how? Or is this guy really out of touch with the average student?
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Typical rubbish reporting by The Daily Mail.
How clueless they are... :rolleyes:
I knew one house at university that had Sky, but they were mature students, and £16 per month between 3 or 4 of you isn't a lot of money at all. That's less than 2 pints a month each.
But maybe he should be pointing to the universities that give these expensive cafes the right to open on their premises, and not offering any cheaper alternatives for people wanting to socialise.
Luxury my arse, quite frankly. When I have to get up at 4am and work for 9 hours 2-3 times at a week at McDonalds where I leave smelling like grease and with shit shit skin, I hardly think student life is "luxury".
Very few people I knew at university were living in luxury. Yes, I knew rich people but very few whose parents were daft enough to just throw money at them. You don't become rich in the first place by throwing your wonga around willy nilly.
I suppose the trade off is that people who went to university 30 years ago may have had a slightly lower standard of living, but on the other hand were not saddled with £15k+ of debt upon graduating.
Times change, the guy needs to deal with it.
But surely the more important story for students right now is, thanks to a fuck-up by the Student Loans Company, over 175,000 STILL haven't got their loans - three weeks after the start of term?
I lived better as a student, than the year after uni (I am in an alright job now), better than I ever had at home.
But not paying council tax, subsidised healthcare treament, not having to go to wrk 40 hours a week... Yeah, life was Ok.
Isn't that what interest free overdrafts are for? I don't know any student account that doesn't give you more than you'd get in your first loan installment anyway.
Saying that, universities will understand the lack of rent payment if you've not got your loan yet. It's the ones who aren't in halls who are gonna have problems.