My Dad Threatened To Cut My Tuition. He Didn’t Know I’d Already Graduated.

I started setting money aside sophomore year, $50 here, $120 there, pulling it from my lab stipend and later from a freelance CAD drafting gig I picked up through a Craigslist ad. Some months I ate rice and frozen broccoli for two weeks straight. Some months I put in $400. Some months, twelve bucks.

I kept it in a savings account at a credit union on continue reading …