Also shoutout Cal State for being the strongest public university system in the country. Public universities are incredible and deserve all of our love. Go Beach! 🦈🌊
Replies
San Francisco State U! Go Gators!
apr 2, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
CSUN alum. Go Matadors!
apr 2, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Once a Matador, always a Matador! ❤️🖤
apr 3, 2025, 2:35 am • 1 0 • view
I graduated from San Diego State in 1965. I worked full time for minimum wage, paid all my own expenses (rent, car, food, fees, books). I didn’t even know you could get a loan!
apr 2, 2025, 6:31 pm • 8 0 • view
The first federally subsidized student loan program began in 1965. You graduated before they were available for you. I received a National Defense student loan for a total of $300 my last year at Western Illinois University, Class of 1969. Deferred while attending grad school at the U of Wisc.
apr 2, 2025, 6:37 pm • 4 1 • view
That sounds about right. There were needs-based scholarships, but my parents made too much for me to qualify because they didn’t take into account that my brother started college the same time. The boy got the financial support. It worked out, though. 🙂
apr 3, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Many colleges & universities had their own needs-based scholarships as well as other non-federal scholarships. Because I majored in biol/chem, I received National Defense student grants for majors in science, math,& engineering (now STEM) after Soviets launched Sputnik, 1st satellite. A moonshot.
apr 3, 2025, 3:07 am • 1 0 • view
I remember Sputnik and how we ramped up our investments in engineering and aeronautics. I majored in German and Psychology, so it wouldn't have helped me, but our younger son received a scholarship because he was majoring in Physics. That was at the end of the '90s.
apr 3, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
We are of the same age. The post WW2 GI bill juiced the higher ed programs in addition to the baby boomers attending college just as the Vietnam War heated up starting 1965 as well. I remember when WIUs tuition ramped up to $75/qtr, the horrors in ‘67. When states actually supported hi ed. Not now.
apr 3, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 1 • view
I’m an early war baby, not a boomer, but close enough. I agreed with a lot of hippie ideas, like natural food, protect the environment, stop the war, etc.
apr 3, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 1 • view
Similar for me. Was getting finish aid with BEOG (no repayment). But got married, a less advantageous financial situation and lost the grant. Got a loan from a service organization but still under $5K. Also, a commuter student in the early 80s. Tuition is absurd now. But so are interest rates.
apr 2, 2025, 6:40 pm • 6 1 • view
I couldn’t live at home with both parents working and a brother who invited frat brothers over unsupervised. I didn’t feel safe and couldn’t study. Leaving and going it alone was the best thing I could have done.
apr 3, 2025, 2:54 am • 2 0 • view
Agree! I went to an excellent giant state school and loved it. Got a great education. It was 50 years ago, though, and its state legislature is currently attacking ot.
apr 2, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Go Beach but we are still breathlessly waiting on the UCs.
apr 2, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view