Hard at first cause I was very lazy, but it got better with hospital practice in later years. It was free.
The way things were done in my post commie freshly liberated country was:
- you pay taxes
- taxes are used for education
- there are exams held for limited spots, with Biology, Physics and Chemistry
- the people with the best scores enter, rest fail
- univ is "free", although there will be costs for manuals, various needed gear. If from out of town, there would be limited spots to live in a "campus", cheaper than renting
No debt though.
I love this system. The only flaw it has is lacking an authoritarian-ish government preventing faggots that study for free on our taxes from leaving to the West for more money. That loophole needs patching up.