Education is only “expensive” because people choose to overspend on it. The cost of my education was less over 4 years than a lot of people paid in one year. There were plenty of people sitting right next to me at 25 years old in tens of thousands of student loan debt making the same amount I was.

I was accepted to a well known engineering school. I chose to go to a much cheaper state college and stay at home. Looking at the salaries reported by the engineering school for graduates three years out, I was making the same.