Katharina Buczek
“And in my explanation, I said I was obviously grateful but that I didn’t consider it a ‘complete blessing’ because of the huge impacts it had on me and my family,” she recalled.
Her friend still did not understand her point, though, and actually just got really upset that she said that.
Then, he accused her of “trying to play the oppression Olympics” and got all upset that she hid the “truth” about her family’s finances from him.
Apparently, her friend did receive federal grants and merit aid from his college. However, he was still forced to take out a federal loan.
So anyway, while she stands behind her point that getting her college fund money was complicated and traumatic, she knows that she still graduated without loans at the end of the day– which she realizes is a luxury many students don’t have.
And now, she has been left wondering whether not considering her college fund “a complete blessing” makes her a jerk or not.
Is she allowed to have mixed feelings about the origin of her college fund? Why do you think her friend got so offended by her comments? Should her friend be mad at her or the education system?
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