Is the word rich something that you would identify with?

Unfortunately, and I mean it's a mixed thing to say yes to that.

Because on the one hand, you know, I guess you're supposed to want to be rich.

I think maybe once you are rich you maybe start to wonder about all the negative

connotations that come with that.

This is opportunity costs from death, sex, and money.

I had Champagne taste on a beer budget budget a series all about class which we think about a lot

I feel judged about it and need to talk about more on paper I was going to become a millionaire. I'm Anna Sale.

About a month ago we got an email from a college student named Niscient. He's a junior at Berkeley studying

electrical engineering and computer science. And as he gets closer to

graduating, he's been thinking a lot about his family's class status.

It took me a while to realize how well off my family was and how rare that was or how lucky

we are and that's something I guess kind of in hindsight I wish I had realized sooner.

Nishand is the oldest of three kids. He's originally from a large college town in the Midwest.

He didn't want to say exactly where. His mom works as an ophthalmologist and his dad founded and runs a software

company. Neshant told me he first got a sense of how much money his family has when he was around

eight or nine. I think I was at a summer camp and

it was a summer camp that had like a there's like a day camp option and a

residential camp option that was at the university nearby our home.

And I remember I saw that the residential camp was $1,000 or $1,200 a week and I thought, oh wow, that's

a lot of money.

And then dad came to pick me up in a sports car and then some of the

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