By all means, go. But pay for it yourself. If you can't personally afford Mars, the middle of the Sahara Desert is unoccupied and overwhelmingly easier and cheaper to get established in. Or, under the ice in Greenland. Or, revitalize an abandoned whaling station on an island off Antarctica. If those seem uninviting, I promise Mars will be a thousand times moreso.

Your "golly I'm on Mars!" euphoria would thin out very, very fast. "This place f'n sucks!" malaise would grow steadily and without bound.