I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.
In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.