“Vera Petrov! Listen to me, you’re smart as hell! You could do anything you wanted in life!”
“Maybe, if I had money! I’m not a capitalist pig and in this society you don’t get anywhere without money, regardless of how smart you may be. And financial aid doesn’t cover a fraction of it. I don’t want to ruin myself without any guarantee of seeing any of that money back.”
“I can’t blame you Vera. I personally don’t know anybody who is actually doing what they went to school all those years for. My cousin has a master’s degree and flips burgers for a living. Either way, I guess I’m in the same boat as you now.”
“Plus, what the hell is being smart good for anyway? What you learn in school is utterly meaningless in matters of real life. They can teach you all about the smallest subatomic parti
