College in Poland <i>is</i> free and there are options for very limited stipends which can sustain you (albeit on a poverty level). That <i>did</i> lift me from a poor, but educated, family into the world of computer software and a relatively successful career it seems. As it did for countless of my peers.<p>Please don&#x27;t discount free education as &quot;not changing much&quot;, in the US I would be probably working at Mc Donalds or dealing crack and in jail.