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RockCreek

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5. And add in the exhaustion of doing paperwork each year
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 04:12 PM
10 hrs ago

Wondering if your package will be IK next time.
Fees to take out loans originally, then years of trying to pay them back.
Looking at the additional things your classmates can afford and the better unpaid internships available to the. Later, jobs in the cuty of their choice regardless of salary even beginning to come near covering the cost of living there.

Spoken from experience. Not that one shouldn't make to choice to go to an expensive school. One should just be aware of some of the usually unspoken stresses and their toll.

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