She's from Colorado and decided to go to an out of state university (Oregon) and pay full out of state tuition for a degree in "historic preservation"?

Yeah no shit you just signed up for a lifetime of debt.

Reminds me of another story of some lady that got saddled with a couple hundred thousand in debt because she really wanted to go to Duke for a theater management degree. And then fled with her Russian fiance to Moscow so she wouldn't have to pay it.

We all agree that higher education is too expensive in the US. But these are not good examples of that.