17 Things That Used To Be “Good”…Until They Became Way, Way, Way Too Popular

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“Can’t believe nobody has said this but college. My parents were the first in their families to go to college. My mom’s dad had dyslexia and was not fully literate, and left school in grade 8, owned a farm, and sent my mom to a large state school for her bachelor’s and master’s with little to no loan debt. My dad’s dad worked at a local grocery store; my dad worked a union job at Safeway on the weekends and paid for his college and veterinary school tuition, books, and a car. He also went to a large state university. I attended a smaller liberal arts school, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships, and then went to medical school, where there’s no such thing as scholarships — and you aren’t allowed to have a job while being a medical student. I owe less than most people I know in medicine; the average debt is about $400K, and I owe $250K, but it’s nowhere near the experience my dad had.”

“My state went from heavily funding higher ed and seeing it as a public good, to defunding it almost completely and having massive lawsuits for millions in missing funding found in audits. To my knowledge, nothing has happened, the money was never found, and the politicians who ‘lost’ that money got voted back in, and all their staff now have suspiciously new cars.”

—Anonymous, 31, Pennsylvania