Genuinely worried for my best friend’s roommate
So me and my best friend are both from California, but I currently live in like a neighborhood (commute to SF) and he lives right in the middle of SF with an international roommate.
The stories he tells of his roommate have me actually concerned. This dude went to CMU (wasnt CS, some adjacent degree…) and has over 300k in student loans, and is currently barely paying rent with 2 contracting gigs on a freelance website.
I recently met up with them at a restaurant this week, and the dude says he plans on getting a masters here as well??? WTF?
How does he plan on funding it, and with all the giant cutdowns on international hiring, how is he going to get a job here?
I’m saying this from a perspective filled with confusion.
Does anyone know people in these sort of situations and wth they end up doing? Do they just escape back to their home country with the degrees and never come back?