I can't fix it. It's because it's plastic and you're not seeing the money being taken away. It doesn't feel like a real transaction. Now working full-time at a law firm, her goal is to have her entire balance paid before starting law school in August. And she hopes to keep it off for good.
People hold on to that card.
They're willing to take a risk on college students because many have part-time jobs and may have the bank of mom and dad. The problem he finds from mixing college students and credit cards is a lack of education, Rhode said. It's a status thing. In order to fit in we have to acquire things that make us part of that group. Brian Shane, a 2000 University of Maryland graduate, got his first and only card the summer he worked at Camden Yards in Baltimore three years ago when he signed up in order to give a friend the free subscription gift.