Damn, I read the whole thing to find out what happened to the woman and her four courses that would cost "roughly the gross domestic product of a small Central American nation at an elite private university", but it doesn't say. So she spent $200, learned some maths, and then... What happened?
My impression was that it was a developing story: they only told it to the point that events had progressed to. It mentioned her getting laid off, so this seems likely.
