When I was in art school our TA’s were making 20k a year but stilling on 50k - 100k in student debt. They’d all been to bigger, more prestigious art schools, and they were barely getting by. And each of these schools was churning out hundreds or thousands of students every year.
That convinced me to take a different direction in life. Glad I did. I’m still a working artist and make a good living with it as a side hustle, but I’m glad I don’t have to live with the uncertainty.
a lot of your TAs didn’t have that debt. They had trust funds.
I was in grad school and one of the reason I left is I learned I was basically the only person in my program who was paying my own way… and that most of my professors… also came from money. And they were all shocked that I actually lived entirely on my stipend.
And you can find stats on this. The majority of med students, for example, come from upper income homes. Just like the majority of students at elite schools, also do, and the majority of admits to med schools come from better schools…
When I was in art school our TA’s were making 20k a year but stilling on 50k - 100k in student debt. They’d all been to bigger, more prestigious art schools, and they were barely getting by. And each of these schools was churning out hundreds or thousands of students every year.
That convinced me to take a different direction in life. Glad I did. I’m still a working artist and make a good living with it as a side hustle, but I’m glad I don’t have to live with the uncertainty.
a lot of your TAs didn’t have that debt. They had trust funds.
I was in grad school and one of the reason I left is I learned I was basically the only person in my program who was paying my own way… and that most of my professors… also came from money. And they were all shocked that I actually lived entirely on my stipend.
And you can find stats on this. The majority of med students, for example, come from upper income homes. Just like the majority of students at elite schools, also do, and the majority of admits to med schools come from better schools…