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Originally posted by ZTAngel
A friend of mine worked 40+ a week while in college and he always gave me a hard time because I never had to work while in college. While I think it's admirable that he worked that hard to pay his tuition, I would always get offended when he thought of me as spoiled and unthankful for what my parents did for me. My parents did Florida Prepaid. For anyone unfamiliar with Florida Prepaid, it is a system that allows parents, grandparents, or whoever to lock in a future student to the cost of tuition, dorms, etc. for that year. You then invest your money throughout the years into the Florida Prepaid system. My parents invested the day I was born in 1981 so my tuition was completely covered and my parents only had to pay the 1981 tuition price.
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Wow! What an awesome program. sucks the it's no longer available.
My parents saved for me - an amount that would have covered all my tuition had a I gone to school before the nineties, but tuition has raised so much that it ended up covering my residence fees first term and then a 1/4 of tuition every academic year. But I'm still very honoured and grateful that they did that for me - neither of them got to go to university and they always wanted to make sure that I could.
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