My parents were both deceased by the time I was 21. I was in the Navy until I was 23. When I got out and got a full time job then enrolled in college I could not get financial aid because I made too much money!
Lots of ethnic groups, born here and new arrivals who lived with their parents were getting free money every year. In Physics and Calculus it was mostly Asians. White kids who still lived with their parents in nice middle class homes were getting money on some terms. That was when I became a political agnostic.
