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• Monday, January 12, 2009 01:13 PM

  Trust funds

  Yes, the majority of grad students are from affluent families, but not all of us are. It seems silly to look down on people who are pursuing graduate studies simply because you assume anyone who is doing so must be rich or pretentious.

  and:

  I'm not sure of the logic that equates graduate student with trust fund baby. Perhaps that is true in some cases, but most of the graduate students I know and have known are or were not independently wealthy. In fact, they usually struggle to feed themselves and make the rent.

  I think it was me who first mentioned trust funds in this thread. OK, maybe I mis-spoke, but what I was really meaning was that the attitude of many of the confused graduate students who write in to Cary suggests a lack of familiarity with the working world, that in turn suggests that probably they have a financially supportive family.

  The philosophy student who has swapped his love of knowledge for a life of watching TV cartoons versus the guy who hasn't yet entered medical school. This is what I am talking about. If she wants to marry a doctor of infectious diseases, why not look for a ready-made one? They are everywhere. Try your local teaching hospital.

  I also agree with metadet. The earlier boyfriend was probably bonked silly during his time in China. Like the missionaries who went to Hawaii to do good and did right well, I am sure that after his humanitarian work in China, he will never settle for the charms of the LW now that he knows the world is his oyster.

  —Amerigo Read Amerigo's other letters
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