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Students whine about being ‘broke,’ yet they spend so frivolously

To sport Nike shoes, a Bench jacket, and fine denim while holding an iPhone 6 and a Starbucks coffee, but exclaiming in a pouting voice, “I’m so poor,” strikes me as considerably misguided. Is it just me, or do students not understand the difference between true poverty and reckless spending? About a week ago I stood at the bus loop and overheard a surprising conversation between two students, one of whom complained to the other about his financial ‘crisis.’ While tuition, books, rent, food, and all the other necessities of city life are indeed hellishly expensive, I could not take…

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