<p>Well, it looks like I got into Texas Tech. Now I've just got to finally decide if this is really what I want to do. I'm looking at like 35k debt versus like 85k debt. Hypothetically speaking here, if I go to Texas Tech and then get my Phd at someplace like Stanford, would that somehow give me a disadvantage when compared to someone that went to Oberlin before going to a school like Stanford to get a Phd? I'd probably become a professor. I'm not sure how things work. I don't think an education really works out as a commodity.</p>
<p>It just seems like it would suck to go through all that school and have to pay off that debt for a long time after I get my degree. I mean, what if I want to get married, buy a house and start a family? I wouldn't want to be close to thirty, paying a house payment, student loans, and paying for kids, too. Plus, professors get paid pretty crappy anyways (with a few exceptions, of course). </p>
<p>I might be kind of rambling here, but as much as I like Oberlin, I can't get it through my head why I'd pay that much more money to go there.</p>