This was simply because the college I had just graduated from had been a huge, rather un-specific public institution, which I chose largely mainly because it was affordable." I was capable to pay for my education in full as I received it since I worked 20 and 25 hours a week for six-fifty an hour in a bookstore and for five-fifteen an hour on the copy desk at the student newspaper, where my colleague was a taciturn M.F.A. poetry candidate who left raw ramen crumbs all over our desk.