Ever notice how despondent the two parents look in the mosaic art work in the 8th Street-NYU subway station in Manhattan? When you think about it, its really not that they’re lost and trying to find their way with a map, but rather, their daughter just pointed to NYU’s Silver Center (the old Main Building) and said “I want to go there.” Tuition and room/board is set to break the $50,000 mark next year, and NYU’s student newspaper projected the frightening circumstance (at the end of the article) that if the 65% tuition increase NYU has seen since 1998 continued until the university’s bicentennial in 2031 students (and parents) would be forking over $119,000 a year to attend. Yikes. If you look closely you can see the fear parents’ mosaic eyes as they realize that they have no hope of retiring–the mother looks angry, but the father seems resigned to the fact, or is just numb inside.
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Great post! well written and insightful. M concurs! we were laughing out loud. -E
Thanks!