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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) by yummyfajitas on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:42AM (#13482936)
I was on a stipend during grad school. And I was grateful, rather than resentful, towards the undergraduates and taxpayers (in my case, far more of the latter than the former) who paid for it.

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Re:What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015) by burkaman on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:32PM (#13484320)
It's fine to be grateful, but a grad school stipend is not charity. You are being paid to perform a service. If the undergraduates (or more commonly, their parents) and taxpayers did not think research and teaching were useful, they wouldn't pay you.
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