Katharina Buczek
And to this day, her brother has panic attacks if either one of their parents calls after midnight because he worries that someone else in their family might have died.
This all meant that while she grew up, she became the peacemaker and basically like a third parent– looking out for her brother while her mom recovered from all of the loss.
In the wake of her grandmother and uncle’s death, she and her sister also inherited money for college from their wills.
“But I would have rather had them alive and have had to go to a less expensive college as a result,” she said.
Just recently, though, one of her guy friends from college, who is 24, asked if she had heard about the student loan repayment pause.
And she told him that she had heard but that she didn’t know much else about it because she didn’t have student loans.
Well, after she told her friend that, he reportedly started asking her a ton of questions about her family’s financial situation. For context, her dad is a teacher, and her mom currently works part-time.
Then, her friend asked how she was able to afford college without taking out any loans.
Now, she honestly did not want to get into all of the backstories. So, she just told her friend that she landed a big scholarship and also had some contributions from her extended family.
Her friend seemingly took that all wrong, though, and became frustrated. Then, he began complaining about “rich people who act poor but will never actually struggle.”
At that point, she attempted to explain how she actually got all of that money. After all, it’s not like her grandparents were millionaires and sending her cash from their yacht docked in the Caribbean.
