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These days (and back when I went to college in the 2010s) a part time job wouldn't even pay for one class a semester. If we consider JUST the average cost per credit hour, not additional fees, housing, etc l. Working minimum wage, which is what most on campus Jobs will pay, you're doing 7 weeks...

These are all solid points, and I was told enough to be smart enough, to at least pick a good degree. But I didn't even need it. A few solid certs, and for less than a couple thousand I could have landed all the same jobs. I did benefit from the networking, though. Anyways, the recent emphasis...

Computer Information Systems. I'm a SOC manager at an IT company. I Started out doing internships for $8 an hour.

I got scammed hard by this mentality. It was go to college or be a poor loser. Out of my peers at work, roughly half of them don't have a degree. And the entire two people above me in the country both dropped out of college.

Well it's a 25 year forgiveness plan, so they'll still need to do 22 years of payments. I'm actually on the plan, which tbh makes me a little biased towards it for my own benefit, but if I'm being realistic, I wouldn't mind if it didn't count. 3 extra years isn't a total income killer.

According to studentaid.gov it does.

Not everyone. It would have been utterly foolish for those on income based repayment with forgiveness plans. Those 3 years count toward the forgiveness, on a loan they'll never pay off in full. They would have just been throwing money away.