Why did the woman not go to college?

M: Juliet, you chose not to go to college. Why? Was it about money?
W: Well. I don’t want to sit here to say I was too poor to go to college. But the fact is that we didn’t have the money, though my mum probably could have made enough somehow. I probably could have worked harder at school and gotten better grades, so, it is really I didn’t get to go to college. I had a wish to go to school every other week. It wasn’t just my path.
M: At the time did you feel that you were missing something?
W: My best friend went off to university and I just remember every time I talk to her. It all sounded so fun and so great. Here I was Selling 10 shoes and getting on the bus every day to work in town. We both thought the other’s life was so much more exciting. I was trying hard to make enough to pay for my own flat every two months and that seemed so exciting to her. And she would talk about studying for finals, and going to parties. and I thought, God, she is so perfect.