I just had a heated conversation with a friend about how financial aid screws us over a lot… she’s complaining about how some grant she usually gets got decreased, and how she was given a different grant instead and she was trying to understand why they’d “screw her over” like that.
Blah blah blah.
She’s fucking wearing brand-name clothes, and she lives in this 3-story house in north corvallis and her parents are relatively rich. (they have their own business.) What the fuck is she complaining about? She got to go to China or something for a year last year. The pen she’s using alone costs about $10. Jesus fucking christ. I’m sitting here with a $300/month budget, living NOT WITH MY PARENTS, and she’s sitting across from me wearing $75 shoes, saying how we need to set up “some kind of complaint system” to whine about how our lives suck and the government doesn’t give us more money.
“So you live with your family right?”
“yeah.”
“So you don’t have to deal with rent and stuff right?”
“No. Because then I’d have to work.”
Jesus christ. I hate rich whiny people.
actinide | 02-Nov-05 at 12:54 pm | Permalink
I hate people like her so, so, SO much. I’ve had the displeasure of going to school with quite a few of them, and every time they open their mouths I wanted to beat them.
shazamaramack | 02-Nov-05 at 1:00 pm | Permalink
didja slap the bitch?
winnebagos | 02-Nov-05 at 1:34 pm | Permalink
Coming from a family that isn’t well off I find it easy to hate on people like this. More constructively, though, it makes me appreciate people who’ve got money at their disposal and don’t act this way. I anticipate being able to provide more for my kids than my parents could for me. Raising children with a genuine sense of modesty will be extremely challenging but, there are few characteristics more important, I’d argue.
altf4osu | 02-Nov-05 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
I second that comment.
At this point:
“No. Because then I’d have to work.”
She’d have been laying on her back, knocked off her ass, and looking at the floor from getting slapped so hard.
irukahoshi | 03-Nov-05 at 12:45 am | Permalink
I totally agree it’s frustrating. I have been working my way through school for a long time now. I would be finished with my PhD by now if I had fiscal support. In contrast I think it’s made me really appreciate my education and I get a lot from it. I feel like at times I have learned more than a lot more than some of my coworkers with PhDs. I have also had the fortune of having had a colorful life. Trust me, you’ll have to know me a LOOOOONG tiem before you even know most about my life. Unfortunatly it makes it a little harder on the dating scene initially.
autarchex | 03-Nov-05 at 1:15 am | Permalink
I just don’t see how anyone could claim that financial aid was screwing them over. I mean, even if they only give you five bucks, it’s aid, not exactly screwing you over. People who look gift horses in the mouth should expect to lose their noses to horsebites.