How much luck did you have . <| sep |> Are you guaranteed 48 K after graduation or are you projecting ? There is simply no possible way too tell if $ 300 a month is too expensive when we know nothing about your other expenses . Rent , student loan payments , electric , etc . List those out and let us know . In general , $ 300 a month is not terribly expensive on 48 Kyr . But it just depends on your other expenses . <| sep |> The Fifth Column because I genuinely enjoy casual political conversation <| sep |> Yeah but as somebody who works in mental health , we gotta deal with the times as they change . Problem a good portion of the country still considers it an illness or defect , but gender and sex have been separated in anthropology since I was in college in that era . Cause not every society had malefemale .