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UGGG people can be annoying like that! My parents pay for a lot of things for me, but I don't take it for granted! Things that I "want", not "need", I pay for -- even my sorority and fraternity dues. I had a job from the middle of my freshman year until last summer, and I feel really guilty even that I don't have one now. (I don't because it's hard to find one while studying abroad: don't think I haven't tried.)
I got the biggest amount of crap, though, when my uncle gave me a car last April (my first car). Everyone seemed to think that that indicated that I was spoiled beyond all belief, 19 years old and not paying for my own car. Then they all shut up when I asked them, "And how many of y'all had your first car given to you by your parents??? You might have been 16, not yet in college, but still!"
Then again I know people who are my same year in college, but STILL don't have a car because their parents won't help them out on it, and they don't have enough money to get one. I don't really like that either. I think that, if the parents have enough money to help their children out until they get out of school, they should do so, within reason.
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