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During college, I stayed close to campus every summer in order to work. Plus, I liked living on my own. The second summer I stayed, I got a job as a waitress and rented a room in a house to get me by until the new school year, when I would have a free room and a stipend as a Resident Adviser. What with one thing and another, I wasn’t going to have enough from my brand new job to pay my first month’s rent right then. Instead of calling up my parents for a quick interest-free loan to g...