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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the other hand, if you didn’t grow up at least exposed to rich kids you might not know how the game is played. You may not realize that everyone around you is getting help until it’s too late - you spent the money on grad school, picked a career, etc. Then you find out that everyone else has been getting help all along it must feel like a sucker punch.  [/quote]

This is the truth.  I don't have problems with any class rage, there are many ways to live a happy and fulfilled life without tons of money, but the above is still true.[/quote]

I didn't really figure this out until I was getting ready to write up my doctoral dissertation and one of my classmates was like "Yeah, it's so distracting here.  I'm just going to go live in my parents' beach house for six or nine months while I write up my research" and I was like "But how can you still work as a Teaching Assistant then?  How will you pay your rent?  Get health insurance?"  It never really occurred to me that there were people in their mid to late 20's who had the option of living rent free in their parent's "extra houses", or that their parents were clearly paying for their health insurance and living expenses so that they could afford to walk away from a Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant job.

I honestly didn't know that only wealthy people were supposed to get to be professors and that most of these wealthy people had parents who already were professors who paved the way for them.  I thought that getting into a top program with a stipend and high GRE's meant that I too was supposed to be there.  Today, I'm assuming that a lot of these perpetual students and perpetual adjuncts are being bank rolled by their wealthy parents.
I have a child who is currently on a prestigious fellowship (think Rhodes, Fulbright, etc.) and it never occurred to us that other parents were going to supplement the student stipend these fellowships come with, but she talks about how she stays in the town where she is based on weekends while other "scholarship recipients" (LOL) are traveling all over the world literally!  The rich get richer.[/quote]

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