NYT: Why Finishing College is Really Worth It


	NYT: Why Finishing College is Really Worth It

craberry

8-16-2006 3:22 PM

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8-16-2006 8:55 PM

slothraspet

I made more money than I'll ever earn in my life as a 20 year-old dot-commer with a GED. Now I'll have a graduate degree from an Ivy League, and all I will have to show for it is a lifetime of loan payments and a pitiful Good Samaritan salary. Lesson learned? Go public.

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