You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason

College is a constellation of Venmo requests — your roommate’s cut of the utilities, your half of an Uber ride, the ticket to your friend’s a capella performance that you don’t actually want to go to. On Wednesday, Venmo’s parent company PayPal announced that you will now be able to use its services to pay your tuition.

Venmo and PayPal are partnering with the education payment platforms Illumia, Nelnet Campus Commerce, and TouchNet, which collectively serve thousands of colleges and universities, giving students and families another way to pay their tuition.

Yes, you can make one of the largest payments of your life on the same app where you can see that someone from high school is paying for “leaf emoji, fire emoji, smoke emoji,” whatever that could possibly mean. You might open the Venmo app when your friend gets you a latte, then think, “Oh, right, I haven’t paid...

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