Living at home

dt123
Sat, 05 May 2007 23:18:33 +0000

Wouldn’t you worry about getting caught? You would have to pretend you are living in an off-campus apartment and give a fake address. That would be a little unusual for a freshman, and give the FA staff something to look into on a slow day. Your little game could be detected with the slightest bit of checking. What if the school tried to send you mail to your fake address, even if by mistake, and it was returned over and over again, and someone got suspicious?

Here’s what is even scarier, you would probably get caught, not by accident, but when someone you know ratted you out. Maybe an angry ex-bf or gf, whom you had confided in when things were great, would stick the knife in your back by informing the FA office. Or maybe your parents would find out what you were really doing, and force you to go in and confess and take the consequences.

Even if you were careful, you would always have to be watching your back and never get close to anyone, for fear they would learn too much and turn on you someday. Would you enjoy not having loans if you had to be paranoid and lonely for years?

By the way, how great would it be that you had this fabulous college degree but could not get a job because you were a convicted felon? Financial aid fraud is a federal felony, you know.