estaban gastando
Imperfect progressive ellos/ellas/ustedes conjugation of gastar.

gastar

Sin embargo, ingenuamente elegí una universidad que era casi tan cara como Stanford y todos los ahorros de mis obreros padres se estaban gastando en mi matrícula.
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.
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