Brandon Rhéal Amyot wonders what they could spend their time doing if they weren’t so worried about their finances and those of other students.
Amyot is a third-year political science and media student at Lakehead University in Orillia, Ont., and has already accumulated $30,000 of student debt.
“I won’t be stepping out with my best foot forward, because I’m going to spend a decade trying to pay off my student debt for education,” Amyot told HuffPost Canada. “And education should not be about profit.”