It’s a conspiracy of fate: the weather is vile, spitting out snow and winter lightning; your class has not been cancelled, despite the storms; and your car is sputtering through its final breaths, wheezing down the highway. It’s not going to make it to campus. It’s instead going to simply fall apart. And you think you might follow suit. An education was supposed to be defined by books, the endless stacks of ink and pages. You’re discovering, however, that it’s instead composed of unexpected costs, such as your car, which is your only means of getting to university. It must be … [Read more...]