Love this story. A man after my own heart.
Gets deep in student debt, goes to the North, pays it off, then secretly lives in a van on campus while he completes his graduate work.
Yeah, he's flogging a book or two now. Better than waiting for welfare, so good on him.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ken-ilgunas-lived-in-his-van-to-pay-for-college-2013-6?op=1