I suppose I'm missing the basis for your implication that life must always be fair. Such a state of affairs is impossible to create.

I earned a series of private grant scholarships (e.g. Edgar Krahn mathematics scholarship,) and took a programming job in college to pay for my other expenses. If you're referring to my *parents*, and the fact that they supported me until I went to school (well, my father died a year before, but that's not really relevant,) I can't deny it. If you're going to hold that against me, there's not much I can do about that.

That paragraph may sound like bragging, but I only brought it up because of your implication.