Maggie is a straight-laced, straight-A student studying to become an international affairs lawyer, who will graduate debt-free all thanks to the unusual way she pays her tuition.

Maggie, 23, a double-major in Spanish and political science, is a student by day and a stripper by night.

Every other weekend, Maggie, who asked that her last name not be used, takes the three-hour ride from her college in Maryland to Manhattan, where she performs at a dance club called Scores.

“I have a class that ends at 5:30, hop on a bus at 6:00, and be at work by 8:30,” Maggie said.

Maggie is part of a new generation of women putting themselves through college by taking their clothes off, and they are unapologetic about it.

“This takes a lot of brains,” Maggie said. “A girl can be really pretty and not make any money in this field, or she cannot be pretty and make a lot of money because so much of it is about interpersonal skills.”

Maggie is one of 24 women at Scores who are putting themselves through school and stripping to make as much money as possible before they get their diplomas. A fellow dancer, who asked to be called "Jade," is also a college student in New York, studying for five finals, who strips to pay for school.

“When I grow up, I’m hoping to become a forensic psychologist for the judicial system,” she said.

One thing these young women would agree on is that they only have a few years to work as strippers, which is why they are taking advantage of what some now call the G-string scholarship.

With college tuition bills up to $60,000 a year, today’s grads are often saddled with crushing debt. Economists say student loan debt is slowing down our economy because young adults can’t afford to pay the cost of college.

But Maggie found a solution, working just four nights a week. She said she makes $180,000 a year stripping, and she will actually take a pay cut when she becomes a lawyer.

“[People] assume that we’re damaged and it’s like, no, we just want to make three times the amount of money we’re going to make when we graduate, before we graduate,” Maggie said. “That’s why I’m trying to save now.”

But her decision to strip to paying down her college debt is not always met with enthusiasm.

“My parents, when they found out, were totally horrified,” Maggie said, acknowledging that stripping isn’t be the biggest resume booster.

“[My mom] always tells me to be really careful about what I post online,” she said. “[But] I think that I wouldn’t want to work anywhere that would judge me based on [stripping]… and I think that times are changing.”

Maggie admits that there are times when she feels degraded in her line of work when some of the male clients at Scores are disrespectful.

“I’ve had guys try and do all kinds of crazy things,” she said. “They don’t view us as women sometimes. They think that we are degrading ourselves by doing this job at all so they don’t have a problem degrading us further.”

Nonetheless, Maggie said stripping affords her the precious time to study, and she can make more in one night at the club than working 40 hours a week waiting tables.

“I have felt so much more disrespected as a waitress than I’ve ever felt as a dancer and it is constant,” Maggie said. “You get disrespect from management, you get disrespect from customers, you get disrespect from everyone because your job is to serve them and in [stripping], your job is to accompany them, to entertain them. It’s glamorous Cultivate gratitude Be generous Better Life 痕無跡驚春夢伴月眠 140 characters Twitter stock tumbling 宝贝或小孩促进双方感情的有效方法 癌症女孩的夢想反響.”