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Joey refusing to take loans

posted 8 years ago by shrilltrills
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She was all upset when Worthington needed $15,000 extra for her to go to school. The guidance counselor told her she could take out loans, and she refused to even consider it because she didn't want to start her life that way.

Does that seem unrealistic to anyone? Almost everyone graduates college with loans. Especially someone like Joey who has been poor her whole life. It doesn't make sense that she would actually turn down a chance to go to her dream school because she didn't want loans when EVERYONE has loans.

[–] matiastraductor 8 years ago

Joey was always a visionary b*tch, so she predicted that most of millenials would be in debt by school loans. She was desperate for social ascension, and debt wouldn't allow it.

[–] iluvbrookedavis 8 years ago

Because if she got a student loan then Dawson wouldn't have been able to ride in on his white horse and save her by giving her the money. :)

[–] kem7696 8 years ago

Not EVERYONE who goes to college has loans when they get out.

[–] rainbow26 8 years ago

1) Not everyone who goes to college has loans

2) It's perfectly reasonable to not want to begin your adult life up to your eyeballs in debt

[–] timpolcha 8 years ago

That was just the writers staying consistent with the character. She was stubborn and proud to a fault.

[–] kimmie_baever 8 years ago

In that case I'm unrealistic. I understand her completely. My background is eerily similar to her background.

[–] Blanche_Elizabeth_Devereaux 8 years ago

I'm thinking about it and I can't come up with anyone I am close to who graduated with student loans so I guess my friends and I aren't part of everyone. I don't think it is a bad idea to try and figure out if there might be some other way than to start out your adult life in debt.