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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents paid for my education.  I was not a particularly serious student and I had an art major, not because I had dreams of being an artist but because it was fun.  My mother was a trailblazing systems engineer in her day (so stem before stem was cool) and her advice to me was to study something that interested me and success would follow.

I am now a successful lawyer doing work in the public interest.  My way was roundabout but had my parents not supported me through college it would have been a much tougher road and I might not have gotten here.

I will not demand my kids have it all figured out at 18 and I will support them with what I think they need.[/quote]

How did you pay for law school?[/quote]

I worked for a few years between undergrad and law school and had direction by the time I chose that.  I paid for it with loans and by the time I went to law school I did very very well, and received merit aid following my first year so almost 2/3 of my debt was from my first year.

I have to say, having a few years off between undergrad and grad is a good thing in my book, by that time I had significantly more direction than my classmates and I REALLy appreciated having the schedule of a student again.

I think that an undergraduate degree is for most people (leaving out the outliers like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates) required for having options in life.  I want to give my kids options.  I do not expect them to be slackers, but I also do not expect them to be perfect.  [/quote]

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