there are two questions denizens of academia ought to always ask themselves:
could your children attend your own institution of higher education?
even if they did not get the insider's discount?
and,
could you, if you were in school now, with the circumstances of your childhood, attend your own institution of higher education?
even if you did not get an academic scholarship?
Well, could you?
I could not have.
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