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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.