Try again.
$350/2.50=140 hours of minimum wage work and your tuition was paid

How many weeks of work equals 140 hours?

Sometimes I did this in 2 weeks not a half a year.
You think "You used to have to work about half a year at min wage to pay for a year of college."

The people in The Villages didn't get here by wishful thinking. I'll bet most of us have worked 70 hour weeks and helped raise a family and did the chores at home that needed to be done.

The rest of your post makes even less sense.