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#by the income metrics of EVERY university I’ve attended. like that’s how little you’re exposed to normal people? that you class me as
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#tbh im sick of being made to feel. not working class. because i am. but poor. like as though i am ACTUALLY poor (im not! i have Enough)#by the income metrics of EVERY university I’ve attended. like that’s how little you’re exposed to normal people? that you class me as#financially struggling? ME? and i don’t mean it in a shame way it’s so hard to articulate this because I’m just surrounded by people who#really would not be able to live on my family’s very normal income. but im sick of middle class students pleading poverty because their#parents aren’t throwing money at them and im sick of institutions recognising there’s a very real class inequality but doing nothing aside#from low income grants if we’re lucky or ‘widening participation’ grants that are so narrow and contribute so little as to effectively be#worthless. not to MENTION the way middle class students AND academics talk about the working class like we’re a stupid monolith#next person to talk about the way they need to support post-92 unis because education is a universal good and the working class need a plac#to go ❤️ gets shot. honestly. like i actually can’t do it any more. im sick of you fucking people#IM ALREADY IN YOUR WORLD. SURPRISE!!!!!!! stop pricing me out or microaggressing me into giving up.#this is also not about cost of living crisis this absolutely predates it like it is Hurting right now. anyway.#didn’t get the widening participation grant. 👍 so whoever the fuck did. Well im calling bullshit on it honestly. i commute 4 hours each way#because it’s the only way i can afford my ma at redacted prestigious institution please tell me more about how you can afford to rent in#london and have an income below x. 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩#dl
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