<p>We are fairly well off, but not compared to the families of some of the friends my son made at Penn. He knew we had paid a fortune up to that point for his education (including Penn full pay), so he didn’t really push us for more money. He got a job which paid pretty well. I wasn’t thrilled with him working, because I thought it would take away from his academics, but it turned out that the job (a really good paralegal position) helped him get his post-college job in terrible market (2010). He also had friends that were SO wealthy that they paid for him! One young man from a South American country took all his friends to Las Vegas, including my son. Limo, etc. Tough life… Another young man’s family had a huge home on a private island in Alaska and all the boys were invited for a week one summer. All they had to do was fly to Anchorage and a private plane picked them up there. There were chefs to cook the salmon the boys caught. </p>
<p>I really do think my son learned from and appreciated the experiences he had, and he seems to have adjusted to post-college life on his own fairly well.</p>