Veltz Meshugener-not to start anything controversial or anything, just responding 🙂 your generalization that going to seminary is something “that someone else pays for” is not true for many of the people that i know. yes, i got scholarships, and yes my parents paid some, but i paid for a chunk. and my spending money was MY money that I earned…and it wasn’t like the scholarships just landed in my lap… i offered my parents that i wouldn’t go. but yeah, sarcastic as you might have meant your comment of being important for Hashem, i asked a shailah, several times, and for me, it was important to go. and there were many girls in seminary with me who had similiar financial situations, who helped pay their way and who spent their own money.
that’s not to say there weren’t girls who had it as a given that they would go, adn who had daddy’s credit card… tehre were. but it just bothers me when people make generalizations about how spoiled we all are spending money that our parents don’t have for something we mgiht not necessarily need.
ok rant over 🙂
and i apologize profusely for any grammar/spelling mistakes