Megan West(erby)

"It’s possible to romanticize poverty. It is not possible to romanticize debt. If they could foreclose on my education like a house or a car, I’d happily pack it up, pull out my memories of each and every course—”Tudor and Stuart England,” “East Asian Art”—and leave them stacked neatly at the curb. (“Take my Ph.D.—please!”) Hell, I’d even downgrade, trade in my ivy and the New England Liberal Arts degree for any of your better state schools. But I can’t, and so I’m fucked. The concept of credit is based on a future brighter than the present; it assumes that your ship will come in. I can sit behind Fairway and scan the harbor until my eyeballs dry, but at this point I’m pretty sure none of those boats are mine."

~ How Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets Have (Not Yet) Changed My Life - The Awl

8 September 2010 ·