re: Why Summer jobs don't pay for school

not in today's environment...

my summer job basically paid for my tuition and books, the GI bill paid for my living expenses

didn't know how good I had it at LSU until I went back to school 10 years later at Penn State and had major sticker shock...the GI bill paid most of the house note and my Army Reserve billet paid the rest, tuition and books came out of savings. that was a 1000% increase of the approximate 165- a semester I paid at LSU and textbook costs had increased exponentially as well...