美版“蜗居”：杜克大学研究生为还贷款两年住货车

The Duke university graduate student who spent TWO YEARS living in his van so he could avoid more student loan debt
杜克大学研究生为避免更多学生贷款、两年来住货车

Ken Ilgunas paid off a $32,000 student loan and finished a second degree with money to spare by secretly living in his van for two years.
肯·艾古纳斯两年来悄悄住在自己的小货车里，以此节省的钱他用以还清了3万2千美金的学生贷款、还拿到了自己的第二个学位。

By braving roadside public toilets, a bean-heavy diet and mice scampering where he slept, the native New Yorker gained a masters degree at Duke University and a lifetime of incredible memories.
肯是土生土长的纽约人，这两年来他忍受了恐怖的公共厕所、吃的食物以豆子为主、睡的地方还有老鼠，但他最终拿到了杜克大学的硕士学位，也有了一段难忘的人生经历。

But one of the many downsides was that he couldn't tell other students, in case they reported him to security who would have kicked him off the campus parking lot.
所有这些不快中，最让他难过的是他不能告诉同学自己住哪儿。以防有人向学校保安报告，他就会被赶出停车场。

Ilgunas made the dramatic decision after he graduated with 'unmarketable' English and history majors in 2005 and was rejected from 25 paid internships.
肯2005年本科毕业于水牛城大学英语和历史双专业，成绩并不出彩。随后他投递的25份实习工作都被拒，他才做出了住货车的决定。

Fearing his $8-an-hour job pushing carts at Home Depot wouldn't help him pay off his $32,000 University of Buffalo undergraduate degree loan, Ilgunas became 'frantic'.
那时，他在家具超市里做运货的工作，他觉得自己无法靠这个偿还那3万2千美金的本科贷款，非常抓狂。

'That was a wake-up call,' he told Business Insider. 'I had no idea what I was getting into at the time. I didn't even know what interest was when I was 17. I just think that's awfully indicative of the incredibly poor personal finance education young people have at that time in their lives.'
“那时我意识到了问题的严重性，”他告诉记者说，“我不知道自己将面临什么，我17岁选大学专业的时候也不晓得自己喜欢什么。我只是觉得一个年轻人太穷实在不怎么好。”