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You need to put your shame to one side. Pride is the one thing that keeps the poor poor. "They can take everything", they say, "but they can't take our pride" and so they take everything and what have you got? A feeling and often it is of acute hunger. The rich and the successful don't think twice about taking other people's money. In fact, the rich give each other money because doing so is tax efficient. That £50k Boris borrowed to do up the Downing Street flat. He hasn't paid that back, nor was it used to pay for the flat. It was simply spends. So get off your high horse and use Student Finance to better yourself which is what it is there for.
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If it helps, I took out student finance in the late 90s. It financed a stereo, climbing gear and some amazing holidays to the Alps climbing. I had to pay it back because back then it genuinely was a loan. The latest loans are not loans. They are taxes. You have a number on a computer somewhere against your name and that number is designed to go up faster than you can pay it off. So resign yourself to the fact that whatever you get paid after you graduate is what you get paid and don't worry about it but know that by the time you retire you will either earn below the threshold or the number will have been written off.
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