Tim Elder ‘28
Owes You Money
It has come to that time of the semester where students’ bank accounts are in desperate need for grandma’s birthday money or any kind of financial miracle. Thankfully for students the Easter bunnies presence couldn’t have come at a better time.
The Easter bunny, also known as your parents, was hip hopping around this weekend leaving eggs in lawns across the nation. Within these cheap plastic eggs from Walmart lay anywhere from 5 dollars to 50 dollars if you found the golden egg. What was once a happy and cheerful holiday tradition has turned to all out war for families with multiple kids in college.
Little siblings were stiff armed, older cousins were given minor head injuries, but to the students each knee scrape was worth another one of those plastic eggs. It truly would’ve taken a small militia to stop these students from securing their financial lifelines that will carry them to the end of the semester. Students would rather have this family spectacle brought up at every
family event for the rest of their lives instead of having to go one week with every meal coming from the campus itself and not doordash.
Without this event the S&P 500 reported that 86.3% of the student population would have had no other choice but to file for bankruptcy, also known as asking their parents for some extra coin. Taking their cash from little yellow and blue eggs is just fine but actually asking them is an interaction worse than one with your dentist.
What is the source of this lack of capital for students you might ask? It certainly has nothing to do with too much doordash and too many Capri Suns. The students themselves cite the college itself as the reason for their financial struggles. One can definitely see how they came to that conclusion.
Featured image courtesy of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Kentucky
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