Thank you for your thoughts and insight! I, like many others initially thought I have to invest in STEEM to make it on Steemit, but the more time I spent on the platform the more I came to realize that is untrue. It's the people that make Steemit worthwhile and valuable. STEEM would drop to nothing without a strong, diverse, and active community; which is why my team and I are determined to invest in people (students at the moment) as opposed to stocking up on STEEM even though it's really cheap right now.

-Rob